LANDART - PROJECTS

  

2011 / December

 

WHEAT (High Frequency Trade)
The HUDSON RIVER TRADING LLC in New York is a company, that trades in securities and commodities. The most important employee is a supercomputer, who is able to recognize trends on global markets within split seconds, and he offers recommendations to sell or to buy. The boss of HRT Kemal Rogers, who has to accept or to reject the proposals of his computer, is on Tuesday 27. december 2011 in Morocco. At 12.03 h he is visiting the famous market place Gjemaa el Fna in Marrakech.



Here he finds himself among jugglers, fortune-tellers, snake charmers and traders.



At 12.32 h he receives on his mobile a coded message . The computer recommends the sale of wheat - stored away in Canada- sales price 6,72 million dollars, expected profit 1,03 million dollars. Time for decision-making not more than 150 seconds. Rogers acknowledges the receipt of the message by sending his present geographical position : North 31/37/39, West 7/59/48 which is checked by the computer right away.



Roger is continuing his walk…and after 102 seconds he confirms the deal at the Gjemaa el Fna by transmitting his present position: North 31/37/31, West 7/59/21.



Photos Project "WHEAT" Carmen Prelle


 
2010 / October

 

THE PATH TO ORACLE
The ground-plan of the Oracle of Delphi in Greece was partly transfered onto a part of the desert Sahara (Erg Oriental, Tunisian).The Wholy Way (Via Sacra) goes from the entrance to the Apollon altar, and 9 points of this way were navigated with a GPS-receiver (eTrexH, Garmin enterprise). My thanks go to Mohamed Chine, who guided me carefully into the area of Tembain, and to Carmen Prelle for her help measuring the ground-plan and for the photo




 
2010 / October

 

POWROT DYWANU (The carpet returns home)
My father- as a soldier of the German army- invaded Poland in 1939. From there he brought back a carpet (sold? robbed?) In 2010 I brought it back to Poland, and some students of the college "Tadeusz Kosciusko" in Lobzenica/Poland helped me to bury it into the earthwork POLSKA (made 2009, see POLSKA earthwork). My thanks go to Gabriela Kwiatkowska for organizing and translating the event.


  
 
2010 / March

 

"CONFERENCIA DE CLIMA"
This landart-project took place on the Lake Serrano, Patagonia/Chile. A swimming iceberg (appr. 5x3x2 m) was tugged back to the glacier by a boat. My thanks go to the enterprise Serrano Adventura : Mr. Edmundo Martinez, Arnoldo Gonsalez, Jonny Paredes for the perfect organisation and the skilled manoeuvre of the zodiac. To Mr. Victor Alvarez of the shiping-company "21 de Mayo" for the complex logistics and last but not least to the Gobierno de Chile, Ministerio de Agricultura (Conaf) for the permission to carry out this projekt in "El Parque National de Bernardo O'Higgins".


  
 
2009 / September

 

"POLSKA" (Earthwork)
Created during the meeting of artists "Malva 2009" in Luchowo (Poland). Height as succes, depth as humilation, depth combined with narroness as persecution and extermination. Size: 24x4x3 metres
 
2008 / November

 

"LAFUGA DE LAS OVEJAS" (sheep are escaping)
A landart-project as part of the international exhibition (Germany, Chile, Argentina)GUNTHER PLÜSCHOW by G.Ehlers and I.Gaa in the museum Bories, Puerto Bories, Chile. Organized and promoted by the German Goethe-Institut, Santiago/Chile and the enterprise McLean, Puerto Natales, Chile.
 
2008 / June

 

"TITANIC - A MYTH IS EMERGING"
The TITANIC in her original shape 270 metres long and 28 m wide emerges in a cornfield. You can see the upper deck , which is growing out of the soil, with the four funnels and its buildungs. On 7.June 2008 Performance "The Night to remember" with 705 participants.

  
 
2007 / December

 

"PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE ice-minus"
A symbolic presentation of the gen-manipulated bacteria Pseudomonas Syringae (it will not be able to produce ice-cristals any more). Realised with ice of the melting glacier Serrano in the Parque National Bernardo O´Higgins, Patagonia/Chile.

 
2007 / September

 

"Dir Einladung" (The Invitation)
Sculpture in process, three steps.Made out of hay, balled up in white and green foil. Technical assistance farmer Günter Simon. Place: Großropperhausen (Germany)

       
 
2006 / December

 

"O.T."
Pebbles on soil with chair, Mardorf (Germany)

2006 / January

 

"YOGOZEN"
The disappearance of the dualistic ego (Kamakura Beach, Japan)

2005 / November

 

"STEINSCHIFF BLAU" (Stoneship Blue)
Eight Tons of basal painted blue on the ARS NATURA X8a, ordered by the administration of Bad Zwesten (Germany)
 

2005 / October

 

"SIMBOLO"
(Las Penitas, Fuerteventura, Spanien)
 

2005 / August

 

"ERDLIED" (Earthsong)
The brown soil of field turns into a song.
 

2004 / November

 

"The Excursion of Mister Stefansson and his Sweethaert to the Vatnajökull Glacier (Genetic Footprints)"
Landart-Project on the ice of the Vatnajökull / Svinafellsjökull glacier (Iceland) supported by the Association Of Icelandic Visual Artists in Reykyavik (Iceland).
 

2004 / Mai  

 

"Bonifatius´ Reue" (Bonifatius´ regret)
Lying stone sculpture (a stony hand) made of white stones and out of it grows an oak-tree), situated on the ARS NATURA (artpath), Fritzlar (Germany)

 

2004 / April  

 

"MATTIUM ENTDEKT" (MATTIUM discovered)
The most important sanctuary of the German tribe the Chatten was called Mattium. Mattium was distroyed 15 a.C. by the romans. Where is that mysterious plays? Nobody knows. Now Mattium has been "discovered". Earth relief 150 x 100 m on the Mardorf-Artfield, Homberg-Mardorf (Germany).

 

2001 / August  

 

"Die Weisse Frau"  (The White Woman)
Object made out of wood, lime and silk for the ARS NATURA PATH round the old castle Heiligenberg near Gensungen/Germany.
Video by W. Sander, Walking above Horizons. ARS NATURA

 
 
2001 / Mai  

 

"HIRNWEIDE"  (Brain Meadow)
Cows are eating up men, a personal statement to the BSE-disease, Mardorf/Germany.
Tv-report

 

2000 / September  

 

"INIS GROWS"
Earth-relief with performance for the Bertelsmann-Foundation in Gütersloh/Germany, was presented at the world conference of teachers in Oberaula/Germany.

 

 

2000 / May  

 

"Sulamith"
Landart-project in Mardorf/Germany, symbolizing a concentration camp (KZ), made with brown earth and yellow flowers, dedicated to the Holocaust Museum in St. Louis/USA.
Various tv-reports.

 

1999 / May  

 

"Universum der Kinder"  (Children´s Universe)
Children are planting their universe, a happening with a kindergarten at the EXPO-project Licherode/Germany.

 

 

1998 / September  

 

"Musik   Liebe Tod"  (Music Love Death)
3 landart-projects created for the stage play "Orpheus" directed by W. Sander at the castle of Wallenstein/Germany.

 

 

1998 / April  

 

"Hasenjagd"  (Hare-Hunting)
An earth-relief crossing the German motorway A7 near Melsungen/Germany.
Various tv-reports, published in in Bernd Heintze, Blick aus den Wolken (Germany watched from the sky), Augsburg/Germany 1998.

 

1997 / May  

 

"Hunger"
Earth relief (together with Werner Krauss) for "Bread for the World" Stuttgart/Germany.

 

 

1997 / Januar  

 

"Die Blaue Kirche"  (The Blue Church)
Illumination of a sunken church on ice. Part of the project: "Berich comes to the surface again" working together with H. Peterova, W. Sander and K. L. Adam, Waldeck/Germany.
Exhibited: Church Neu-Berich/Germany.
Tv-report and a film by M. Aschenbrenner; "Über Berich", Kassel/Germany.

 

1996 / July  

 

"Mattium II" (The Blue Mountain)
Painting stones in a quarry, symbolizing a fight of Romans against Germans 15 AC.
Exhibited: International Exhibition "Blue as a Cultural Bridge" in Kiel/Germany 1997.

 

1995 / June  

 

"Schwalm - Stadt"  (Schwalm-Town)
Landart-project connecting land, water and history, Treysa/Germany
Tv-report.

 

 

1994 / 1995 /1996  

 

"Genesis"
3 landart-projects for the Kultursommer in Hesse
Part 1: 1994 "God" (with sunflowers)
Part 2: 1995 "Man" (earth relief)
Part 3: 1996 "Pax"  (white mustard plants)
  
Exhibited: International-www-Art Gallery of the German Broadcasting Station WDR,
Cologne/Germany 1995/96, CBS-Art Gallery Schwalmstadt/Germany 2000.
Tv-reports and published in various newspapers and magazines.

 



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