There's Something Very Important I Forgot to Tell You

Egon: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Peter: What?
Egon: Don't cross the streams.
Peter: Why?
Egon: It would be bad.
Peter: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad?"
Egon: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Ray: Total protonic reversal.
Peter: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

 

(Ghostbusters, 1984, Ivan Reitman)

There's Something Very Important I Forgot to Tell You, Francesca Minini, Milano, 2009

Fraktur

DB: Whether consciously or uncounsciously, the Gutenberg Bible incorporated emancipation. Reproducibility enabled a new form of distribution and as such also of access. 'Everyone' was able to buy, read and enterpreter the Bible - something that had previously been the exclusive privilege of the clergy.

 

RP: And of course the translation into the German vernacular. It could be argued that we currently find ourselves in a similar moment, in which similar forces meet and it can no longer be said that the one is better than the other.

 

(Taken from: Da cosa nasce cosa, Daniel Baumann talks to Riccardo Previdi, 2009)

Fraktur, De Vleeshaal, Middelburg, 2009

Manifesta7 - Principle Hope

The time the cigarette needs to go out is the time of the duration of Manifesta; means: approx. every 2 weeks the posters will be changed to show the next stadium of the smoking cigarette. So for the opening one will see the "original" Hollein - Image, but like 2 weeks later the cigarette starts to smoke... and so on, like a very slow motion movie shown on the billboards of the city.

The Opposite of What We Now Know To Be True

Dr. Melik: "... wheat germ, organic honey, and... Tiger's Milk."
Dr. Aragon: "Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties."
Dr. Melik: "You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?"
Dr. Aragon: "Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true."
Dr. Melik: "Incredible!"

(Sleeper, 1973, Woody Allen)

The Opposite of What We Now Know To Be True, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, 2008

C YK - Black To The Future

Magenta 'was' a purplish red evoked by lights with less power in yellowish-green wavelengths than in blue and red wavelengths (complements of magenta have wavelength 500–530 nm). It 'was' an extra-spectral color, meaning it 'could' not be generated by a single wavelength of light. The name magenta 'came' from the dye magenta, commonly called fuchsine, discovered shortly after the 1859 Battle of Magenta near Magenta, Italy.

C YK - Black To The Future, Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe, 2008

Walking Clouds - Art Statements 07

What would happen if Munari’s circles were made oversized and created a gigantic Super-Structure?

An enormous, but still light and fragile conformation, something between a construction game for kids and a strange arrangement of furniture, which will float into space evoking ideas of futuristic architecture, utopian cities, strange machines landing from a parallel universe or of “Walking Clouds”.

Oversizing Aconà Biconbì, 2005, Inkjet print on paper, 100 × 167 cm

C'était un rendez-vouz

(...) "With more and more media readily available through this unruly archive, the task one of pakaging, producing, reframing, and distributing; a mode of production analogous not to the creation of material goods, but to the production of social contexts, using existing material. What a time you chose to be born!" (...)

C'était un rendez-vouz, Francesca Minini, Milano, 2006