This photograph has amused me since I made it over twenty years ago in Germany. The weather was very overcast, which merged the tonality of the table tennis table with that of the footpath... Aware of this strange illusion, I noticed these men who were deep in conversation as they strolled alongside the Rhine. I then took up a position where I might snap them as it were 'on the table'. This was long before I'd heard of Photoshop...
You know we had a group exhibition "Kaleidoscope" in Cologne on 19th March? But still i am not sure i can go on the opening since we still don't get the sponsorship for the airfare. Philip is helping us to bring the show to its 3rd part in Liverpool, and i know Cologne and Liverpool are sister cities, Liverpool and Shanghai are sister cities, because the 4th part will come to 2010 in Shanghai.
The e-space lab project is exploring how internet connections between people in diverse urban and international contexts can enable a dialogue that helps make more meaningful a reciprocal representation of what the conditions of actual everyday life in different places really are. Many of the ideas, illusions and misrepresentations that shape our understanding of where and how other people live in places different from our own can fall away in this kind of dialogue, and also be replaced by a live and ongoing pattern of multiple alternative representations. The forms that we use range from the human voice (by Skype or phone), text, text messages, and images produced by digital cameras and mobile phones, video of course, and even to web pages and podcasts. We like to engage with these forms in a process of dialogue and exchange, using whatever resources are available, and exploring the potential of new tools as they come on stream, especially streaming video. As artists we are especially interested in the role the arts play in valuing practices and the human qualities that shape everyday life in the different places we find ourselves.
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You know we had a group exhibition "Kaleidoscope" in Cologne on 19th March? But still i am not sure i can go on the opening since we still don't get the sponsorship for the airfare. Philip is helping us to bring the show to its 3rd part in Liverpool, and i know Cologne and Liverpool are sister cities, Liverpool and Shanghai are sister cities, because the 4th part will come to 2010 in Shanghai.
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