Gelitin
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For the bus shelter in Staatz the artist collective gelatin has converted two discarded articulated buses into waiting booths. An unusual fountain was designed for the square. The fountain and the waiting room interact, as water is pumped back and forth between the two.
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The Lower Austrian cosmopolitan collective gelatin keps the art public in suspense with unprecedented projects. What Wolfgang Ganter, Ali Janka, Florian Reither and Tobias Urban have invented has to do with adventure and with our desire for it. Their imaginative arrangements are ultimately romantic and anarchic models of life that invite the public to sit back, laugh but also to learn the meaning of fear. The drinking fountain in Staatzist is a hedonistic, intelligent sculpture with that performs a certain service. Two discarded driverís compartments from an articulated bus function as shelters at a bus stop. It is located on a funnel-shaped indentation in the ground. At certain intervals water is pumped in and then pumped out again. This creates a sort of maelstrom that produces a kind of slurping sound. The water is pumped into a cylinder in the bus shelter and is supposed to shorten the waiting time with a gurgling that is evocativeof a bubble bath. Gelatin steamroll the aesthetic of the village fountain with a vaudeville-like calculus. Civilisatory fragments appear as playful grotesques, informed by the synchronicity of the real and the absurd, of satirical impact and the courage to experiment with something out of the ordinary.
The project endet in summer 2004.
(Brigitte Huck)
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