Participative performance project, 2009

In the public performance project macghillie, urban sites are visited by a figure, clad in a camouflage suit that disguises all personal traits. The so-called Ghillie Suit was invented in the 19th century for hunting and was later also used during the First World War. Its camouflage effect leads to the anonymisation and neutralisation of the person who wears it in public. The figure oscillates between the hyperpresence of a mask and visual redundancy and thus ruptures the social system of identity and trust.

About the artists

knowbotic research (Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Hübler, Alexander Tuchacek) was formed in 1991 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland. The artist group has been experimenting with urbanity, construction of knowledge and political representations in mediatised public spheres. Most recently, kr have been investigating the construction of meaning and communication in a series of ‘test cases’ that raise important questions about the constitution of subjectivity under the conditions of an information society.
knowbotic research has participated in the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), Seoul Biennale (2002), Hongkong Shenzen Biennale (2007), Biennale Rotterdam (2009), exhibited in Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, (1994), Hamburger Kunstverein (1995), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Oslo (1996), Museum Ludwig Köln (2000), New Museum New York (2002), Witte de With Rotterdam and MOCA Taipei (2004), Kunsthalle St. Gallen (2005), Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum and Skuc Gallery Ljubljana (2006), NAMOC Beijing (2008), Aarhus Kunstmuseum (2009), FACT Liverpool (2010).

TRUST
30 July–5 September 2010

Dortmunder U – Centre for Art and Creativity
Floor U3
Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse
44137 Dortmund

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