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FIRST SKETCH: RUMOUR AS COMMUNICATIVE SCULPTURE, London, February 2008
BORIS VERSUS KEN
Celebrity Death Match at Itchypark V, Limehouse Townhall on 12 April 2008
...was my contribution to the London mayoral election campaign. The attendees split into two groups facing each other in House of Commons Style. One side made the case for Johnson, the other represented Livingstone. It has been a fierce session of mud-wrestling with traces of melodrama. People shouted at each other reading from slips I brought along. On them were written parts of both candidates programs as well as 'Have your Say' tirades taken from the worst English tabloid web sites.
FROZEN WAVES, BBC - screen, Liverpool Dec 2007
FROZEN WAVES - NEW WORK FOR YAMA, ISTANBUL
WE ARE RACING TO GOD ALIGNING WITH THE SHIPWRECKS BY THE BLUE GALAXIES. (WELL, WELL, DO NOT EXAGGERATE!), 2007
4’13” video, colour, silent
directed by Sylke Rene Meyer
“The captain addresses the crew, which is longing to come home. She is anxiously trying to get a message across. It’s night-time. Stormy weather. No terrestrial channels, but digital waves, a public service announcement to all travellers – nous sommes embarquès at the blue bus. The message cannot be heard. What is the content? What is spoken? No further information is provided. The message board is about to blow… up. Once in a while the captain comes through hurtling down 400 ft to certain death and wonders: What does it all mean?”
Eva Weinmayr’s work addresses systems for immediate communication, the invention of symbols and shorthand expressions in language; in signage, advertising and newspaper headlines. For Frozen Waves she has made a short film about an urgent message that cannot be communicated. The message is composed of appeals from protest literature and demonstration placards. Weinmayr has titled the piece after a Babelfish translation of a line from the German pop song “Hey Captain Starlight”.
FROZEN WAVES - NEW WORK FOR YAMA, ISTANBUL
Babak Ghazi, Mustafa Hulusi, Paul Snowden, Mark Titchner, Eva Weinmayr
curated by Michelle Cotton and Sylvia Kouvali
6 Sept 2007 – 4 Nov 2007
Marmara Pera Hotel, Mesrutiyet Caddesi Tepebasi 34430 Istanbul
11 Oct – 14 Oct 2007
Urban Screens Manchester 07 Art & Events Programme
Manchester Metropolitan University All Saints Garden Oxford Rd, Urbis Cathedral Gardens
Eva Weinmayr, a public reading of "He Said Yes, He Said No" by Bertolt Brecht at Junction Cafe, London N19, Thursday 15th Nov 2007
Document: Scoop: the man ate the ticketman (1013 kb)
LOVE YOUR VOICE / RECORDING STUDIO at Matt's Gallery, London 2006
scoop No 3: The Man Ate The Ticket Man
Invite for booklaunch of "Suitcase Body Is Missing Woman", 15 Decemer 2005, Book Works, London
Douglas Park and Diana Stone reading "VOICE PIECE" by Eva Weinmayr at the launch of "Suitcase Body Is Missing Woman" Book Works December 2005
Document: Douglas&Diana (894 kb)