raising the jolly roger on lake zürich*

*Lately I’ve been reading ‘The Many-Headed Hydra’ by Linnebaugh and Reddicker. And today an article my father sent me, from the NZZ of 29 June 2009 entitled ‘Die Fortschreibung einer Legende’ by Michael Kempe… also about piracy. Additionally, last sunday the pirate party of Switzerland was founded in Zürich – even though ‘true’ pirates naturally ...

Intellectual Entertainment Service

Intellectual Entertainment Service The Right Kind of Guest Advertising published in Time Out – London, November 2007 _________________________________________________________ Collaboration with Larissa Hadjio (www.larissahadjio.com)

M6.1 DIII: Off Season – Cyprus

With M6DIII Public Work 8-21 October 2007 Northern and Southern Cyprus The Manifesta 6 that faltered out of political reasons (see page 36), was to take place in Cyprus on both sides of the line dividing the country since the war of 1974. For the second project of the M6DIII network, some of us followed ...

Black Sheep Days – Zürich

Public Work October 4-21, 2007 Zürich, Switzerland Collaboration with Viviane Mörmann In the run-up to the Swiss national elections 2007, the Swiss People’s Party launched a billboard campaign for their ‘initiative for the expulsion of criminal foreigners’. In reaction to the campaign with its racist imagery, together with the artist Viviane Mörmann I initiated the ...

collide/COLLABO

organising collide/COLLABO series of events, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London 25th-29th June 2006 Welcome to five days of very diverse events at Chelsea College of Art and Design! We have collaborated to present a programme of talks, discussions, workshops and screenings that aim to bridge art and activism and create a critical environment by ...

UNCENSORED

Based on an extract from French writer Michel Houllebecq’s latest book ‘The Possibility of an Island’, this short film shows us two terrorists busy torturing a German hostage — while having an intellectual debate about the worth of a human being, in its biological, metaphysical and economic terms. DV Video 2006

Failed Concepts

‘Repository for Failed Concepts’ Robin Bhattacharya, 2006

Attack of the Art-Mob

Intervention 01

London 2003

Early Works

Panzano in Chianti, Italy, 1983