From 1990 to 2002, Blixa Bargeld has taken bathroom pictures of the hotels in which he spent at least one night. Each of these bathrooms are documented in a serie of 3 to 9 single fotos. The exhibition only shows part of the existing series. The fotos are undertitled with the exact date, name of the hotel, town and country.
The first exhibition took place on November 1st to December 11th ,1997 at Juliettes Literatursalon in Berlin Mitte. A catalogue was published by Juliettes Literatursalon. ISBN 3-932955-97-8.
A 2nd bilingual edition was published 1998. ISBN 3-932955-97-8.
following exibitions took place:
January.98 at La Station, Nice,
March/April.98 at Galerie Hoffmann & Senn, Vienna
December 21st 98 - January 3rd 99, partial showing at "under/exposed", Stockholm
January 15th 99 to February 26 99 at Galerie Mirko Mayer, Cologne
July 4th 99 to September 14th 99, Galerie Kubinski, Berlin
August 17th 00 to September 2nd 00, Galerie & Kunsthandel Mirko Mayer, Cologne
September 2000 Wohnkultur 66 in Hamburg
October 11th to November 1st, 2002 Momenta Art Gallery in Brooklyn, New York
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Sounds, Signals and notes
For a period of 14 days the exhibition rooms of the gallery are turned into a laboratory open to the public for the immediate production of CDs, of a day by day expanding series of unique CDs, a series which preserves and collects sounds, signals and notes - detritus and sediment of events (acoustic and non acoustic/of a caustic and non caustic nature). These events leave no trace on the walls, no imprints or signs other than their numerical, unique specimen of creativity. Each CD is an element of a long, complex equation - ejected from the press, collected into lines on the wall. As a horizon, the opposite wall provides text and picture material, a frieze, the scenery of cable peaks, mixing station valleys, pump works, wires, underground electricity works (amplifier in the cellar), reflecting a panorama rimmed with rugged, proliferating material for thought, which corresponds with the technical construction of recording apparatus reduced to the quintessential, concluded by a CD press which presses the sounds, signals and notes which are sent down cables, intertwined and superimposed; sounds, signals and notes which are recorded by a microphone and witnessed, multiplied, superimposed, mixed, marked out, regulated, pressed and released into freedom. Set free but hermetic.
Die erste Schleife des Tages
Das Geräusch des Schreibens
Kleine Schleifen / Leise Schleifen
Das Flüstern an den Wänden (aufsteigend)
Das Flüstern an den Wänden (absteigend)
GTAC (Versuch einen Engel zu erzeugen)
Katzengangeslärm und Fischessang
Mikrophon, mein Haustier
Is it coffee? What instant? come to the point!
Die abgedroschene Schlange
Für...
Was ich hören will (mit Platz)
Was ich hören will (ohne Platz)
Das Flackern
Buchstaben, gestapelt
Wörter steigen in den Ring
Säulenhalle
Die Anwesenden, erstarrt
... und andere Experimente der modernen Wissenschaft.
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7000 Book Fire
Book burning to produce a book
Several thousand books are arranged outside in the form of a cone. When the mountain of books is lit, it produces a roaring blaze. Texts are regularly selected from those picked out of the fire by fire jumpers, checked, compiled and then transferred onto a wall of screens. The result: ash and a new book.
The first and only performance on 30th May 1997 in Podewil.
The book "233¡ã Celsius" is released at Konkursbuch Verlag Claudia Gehrke.
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