Christoph Wallhorn whitens a wall at
the MCC (Mainzer bikers club) headquarters, which is later to be plastered
with xerox-structures.
The idea to use xeroxes for artistic work had its starting point in
the (mal)treatment of the copy machine. As a low-cost substiute for
films in the silk-screen printing process (posters or wall-papers)
and as a cheap means to issue printed information (which SELEKTION
had actually done since the beginning of the 80s) its availability
to create inifinite series and sequential transformations (if treated)
recommended the copy for an experimental use in mmore or less public
places. |
layers of glue...
Like it was performed in the exchange and transformation of music
on compact cassette, the "copy-actions" based on the idea that a number
of participants would each develop his/her own set of more or less
abstract sequences of copies (which actually meant to discover the
non stereotypical functions of the copy-machine...) which later were
exchanged between the group members. The material would then undergo
further treatement multiplied and exchanged again. These open processes
were interrupted by so called "copy-actions", that sometimes planned,
sometimes in a more improvised manner used buildings or sites in public
space as 3D carriers for copys - as autonomous systems or as accentuation
of the given underlying structures. |
