computer case with smoked glass door, 135x60x87 cm, mahogany chair, pane, gloves, video walkman, 4:3 color video*, no sound, 2:36 min
• Stapelhaus, Cologne, DE · »Chargesheimer Scholarship for Media Art · Awarding/Exhibition«
Honour · entry in the Golden Book of the City of Cologne · 1995
• Galerie Lutz Teutloff, Modern Art, Cologne, DE · 1995 (w/Buky Schwartz)
• Alte Synagoge, Essen, DE · 1996 »Einbrennungen« c* (Loan from the Lutz Teutloff Collection, Berlin.)
• Workshop Talks Visual Arts · German Bishops' Conference 1997 (including on the topic of this work) Magleås Kursuscenter, Birkerød/Copenhagen, DK c*
"here, too, the envoy brought a beautifully turned wooden pocal filled with pepper. On top of it lay a pair of gloves, miraculously slit, quilted and tasselled with silk, as a sign of a permitted and accepted favor, which the emperor himself probably made use of in certain cases."
These flowery-critical words of Goethe, written down about 200 years ago, and my present-day feelings - concerning spiritual and worldly power - form the mental framework of my video installation. Despite all scientific achievements and democratizations in modern times, 'clerical and feudalistic structures' remained or were newly formed.
