24 Januari – 10 May 1998
24 January: opening guest: Mo (D), artists: (through 20 March) Joëlle Tuerlinckx (B), Marijke van Warmerdam (NL), (through 20 May) Johan Grimonprez (B), David Powell (GB).
‘Traffic Jam,’ billboard project: part 1 (through 14 February) Zhou Tiehai (VR China); part 2 (through 20 March) Xu Tan (VR China).
In the second part of ‘Standort Berlin – Places to Stay,’ Johan Grimonprez (B) realized the installation ‘Dorothy doesn’t Live here Anymore,’ a videothek/library as an homage to
television culture. It offered visitors a vast variety of home-copied VHS tapes and related reading. Amongst a specific selection of documentaries and feature films, his pseudo-documentary ‘Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y’ was on view in Berlin for the first time. Fresh coffee and cookies provided a cosy living room atmosphere for more than 100 days.
The new video loop, ‘Another Planet,’ realized for BüroFriedrich by Marijke van Warmerdam, was installed at the end of the corridor – a reference to an eternally repeated notion of the end (of all films). As a direct transition from language into image and the transformation of abstraction into pictorial perception, this work formed an unexpected chain between the videos in Johan Grimonprez videothek and Joëlle Tuerlinckx light installation. Joëlle Tuerlinckx made elementary, sensitive interventions in the show as well as in the office practice. Her flashlights installation, ‘Untitled,’ transformed the whole building temporarily into a transparent structure of intense light. The work ‘Büroarbeiten – Arbeits-notizen’ reflected on the activities in the Büro.
‘Clubscrew,’ an installation with shoes, handbags and bricks by David Powell was his
personal, funny, bizarre, at times destructive comment on a well-known everyday life situation – the club.