Internationaler Sendeschluss (International Television Closedown)
Video installation
Grundig exhibition stand, Messe Wien, 1992
Künstlerhaus Wien, in the context of Kunst und Diktatur, 1993
Dominican monastery Frankfurt, in the context of Nacht Stadt Tag, 15.6. - 23.7.1993
Galeria de Arte Cinemática SOLAR, Vila do Conde / Porto, as part of the solo exhibition Reflections, 11.11.2006 -14.1.2007
Television is the most widespread mass medium in the world and therefore regulates and decides the essential life rhythm of the world’s population.
Programming means life design.
The closedown finalizes the viewer’s day.
The last pictures are part of the national identity; landscapes, flags, buildings accompanied by hymns bring the viewer back home.
The next pictures are dream images.
The white static on the screen is sleep without pictures.
The last 10 seconds of programming and the subsequent closedown of 48 stations from 20 countries around the world.
A work in progress.
