Freedom Bag

Intervention in the public space, 20015

Freedom bag is a bag full of water with a hole in it. The water drops out and it takes 3 hours for the bag to be totally empty. Freedom bag is a medium that brings this message to the public space “Every 3 hours, 35 million dollars are spent in the occupation of Iraq”.

The Dark Side of Bananas

In May 2005 I was invited to participate to an exhibition called Aldi Huxley at Design MAI, Berlin. The task was to design a product to be sold in the exhibiton space. I bought a few kilos of bananas which I painted black. Each banana was for sale for 2 Euro with a label explaining: “The multinational corporation earns 95% on the selling price of the banana. The producer only the 5%”. Nobody bought the bananas in the exhibition, but the visitors were very interested in reading the message. The title “The Dark Side of Bananas” was inspired by my period of study at the Bauhaus University.

The Dark Side of Bananas was published on the german magazine PAGE, in June 2005.

10 Frische Eier

Intervention in the Public Space
2005

Weimar, Germany. 10 eggs filled with paint and thrown against the wall of the brand new library building at the Bauhaus Univeristy. After smashing the eggs on the wall, I displayed a sprayed stencil which works as a plaque to explain the piece: “10 Fresh Eggs – Anonymous, Weimar, 2005, Eggs on Grey Wall”. This illegal intervention became quickly very popular and opened up a discussion about public space. The piece was published on several blogs and discussed on radio programs. The architects who designed the building decided to clean the facade, though an academic commission from the University decided to transform the wall into an “open space” where designers and artists are asked to submit ideas, eventually to be reproduced onto the wall in large scale.

Read the article on Woostercollective.

Photos: Tilman Porschuetz

This photo was taken during the cleaning of the building by my friend Giulia Materia.