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Neen World is a private online community commissioned by the Electronic Orphanage. It operated on the Active Worlds platform between 2002-2003. Neen World consisted of public buildings for discussion and contemplation, and private buildings that housed the worlds’ inhabitants, the Neensters. Some of these buildings were conceived as portraits of the owners, based on their web work. Others were just architectural ideas waiting to become websites’s animations. The entire Neen world is gradually being printed using a 3D stereolithography printer.

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This book is a compilation of images of my travels and explorations in a vast landscape culminating in my performance: “Cleaning in China”.

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Vous pouvez colorier ce livre avec des crayons de couleur, des aquarelles, des feutres, des pastels.

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This book is one result of a class we taught at the California Institute of the Arts in the Spring of 2007. We began discussing the idea of teaching a class together the prior year, to see how young artists would address the human rights abuses and illegal wars the U.S. Government was (and is) committing so openly and, thus far, with near impunity. As an initial focus, Nancy proposed that students up-date, re-make or somehow respond to Martha Rosler’s prescient 1983 video tape, A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night. Martha Rosler generously agreed to join us as a visiting artist, and to discuss strategies for making political art today. A Simple Case for Torture centers on Rosler’s analysis of a Newsweek opinion essay written by Michael Levin, Philosophy Professor at City University of New York. Levin’s arguments in favor of torture would seem to stand morality on its head. To support his argument he employs the “what if“ scenarios of the ticking time bomb and the kidnapped baby, hypothetical situations that virtually never happen in the real world. Rosler’s tape unpacks the arguments and questions about torture and demonstrates that history repeats itself as deadly farce; the issues of fear and ends justifying means have returned in recent years like terrible boomerangs. As we researched the subject of human rights we saw arguments for torture virtually identical to Levin’s being made almost daily in the mainstream media.

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STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, a public space for individual use. Building in process.Architecte : Didier Fiuza Faustino / BUREAU DES MESARCHITECTURES Creative team : Didier Fiuza Faustino, Pascal Mazoyer. Collaborators : Nicolas Hugoo, Xaver Marschalek, Philippe Smith. Construction : Lovarte Lda Client : Ministério da Cultura Three levels concrete staircase, leading to a 4m2 metal-latticed platform with a basketball. Located on Praça dos Arômas, Castelo Branco, Portugal.This project is an interrogative as much as asservative answer to the implicit request made by the municipality for a piece of urban art. Given the unacknowledged rejection of the big housing programme nearby, STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (re)calls (for) that close presence by reprising the motif of the stairway, a place of encounter and safety. Refusing to act as a totemic sculpture that transforms the site into a place of individual submision (to artistic prestes, to political demands), the project invites each person to appropriate it and gives them the chance to momentarily dominate the territory on their own. Like in act of communion, a sharing in isolation.Winner of the price for public contemporary art “Prémio da Tabaqueira 2001“, Portugal.

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]]> http://www.textfield.org/archive/septembre/feed/ 0 http://www.textfield.org/archive/please-write-your-opinions-on-us-politics/ http://www.textfield.org/archive/please-write-your-opinions-on-us-politics/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:46:51 +0000 Textfield http://www.textfield.org/?p=894 Rainer Ganahl, Please, write your opinions on US politics
Softcover, 150 pp., digital 4/1, 140 x 225 mm
Edition of 250
Published by onestar press

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For the Armory Art Fair in March 2003 I was invited by zingmagazine to make a wall drawing for their magazine booth. Political tensions and frustrations were running high over an immanent attack on Iraq. In response to this situation, I opted for an interactive graffiti wall that invited visitors to write down what they thought of US politics. During five days the white wall panels of the booth were filled with texts, commentaries, provocations, thoughts, suggestions, personal accounts, wishful and hateful thinking, and graphics. My photographs of the results of this experiment are presented in this publication.

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I installed an electric cable between my flat and my studio in the academy of fine arts in Vienna. The distance was 1200 metres, it was plugged in the academy. The book follows the cable page by page starting from inside my flat.