'POLITICS, THE SUN AND NOISE'. Overgaden Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. Groupexhibition 'Sculpture - Painting - Textile' 1990
First room, 1st floor: Åsa Lie & Jadran Sturm. Installation in 2 parts with a) 2 videofilms, 2 super-8 films, 7 sound cassettes, 1 poster searching for an exchange apartment in Copenhagen and b) silent void with 'exchange appartment' poster.
The first part of this installation filled the room with sound and visual sources from Athens, Stockholm and Copenhagen. The films showed political, religious and everyday content representing three eras: Antiquity, Byzantium, the 19th and 20th centuries and the strong Danish/German influence via the monarchy on the modern town plan of Athens and it's neoclassical architecture. One of the sound sources is about migrating birds, used as an indirect illustration of movements of and exchange between people, goods and ideas.
In the second part of the installation, all objects except for the poster were removed, and the filled emptiness was left for the remaining 13 days of the exhibition.
As a result of the 'exchange apartment' poster in our installation, we moved from Stockholm to Copenhagen and stayed for 4 years.