the office

Three days after the opening I am back in the exhibition space, - waiting.
Supposed to meet friend who wants to see the show.
It is quiet pleasing to have an "office" inside this show. Not that I have to wait in a cafeteria or walk endless rounds this space whose art pieces I know quiet well since I was installing (with everybody else). I rather can sit down at an office table take my laptop. I have absolutely no problem to plug in the power for my laptop - I feel so comfortable doing this because the environment suggests: I am at home, or, at least among friends. There is this -slightly deceiving- feeling of total relaxedness, being in an intimate sphere which is a bubble within an anonymous public (art) space. It reminded me of Rirkrit Tiravanija's 1:1 replica of his East village Apt at Gavin Brown Gallery a few years back.

So I open my laptop and start writing this, while waiting.
My friend arrived and I left this text window in my laptop open. Later when I returned to pack up, several visitors were curiously reading the first three sentences and I have been reminded that this is not an office and that any action and/or object in this space becomes part of the art piece..

more on Yeonhee-Dong 195 Residency project initiated by Yooyoung Lee, Erlend Hammer and Jan Christensen.

Exis Film Festival Seoul

I actually saw some great works there. Only the large theater had an aura that couldn't help but calling "pyonyangesque"...

installing "points of presence"

my very first exhibition in Korea.
Right away with the most complicated art piece I ever made: the one that rotates..My friend and super-engineer Michael Casselli (with whom I built this) 4000 miles away and hard to reach with 13 hour time difference... the museum installers were 20 year old kids, so that made it a bit scary hanging a 200kg apparatus under the ceiling, non of us -including myself- being REALLY experienced in that. But I have to say: Everybody worked hard. Very hard.

Ed Fredkin in New York

I am interviewing Grand Master of Computer Science and Reverse Computing pioneer Edward Fredkin. We had a great talk. Nontheless his Yellow Submarine designer friend steals the show...