Trans-Lokation
8 minutes of walk - 808 steps

Intervention as part of the opening of the new esc medien kunst labor, September 12th, 2013
Videodocumentation, Video (3:39)

Photo: Doris Jauk-Hinz, 2013

8 minutes of walk - 808 steps are represented by 808 red squares, which in their order form a line on the glass surfaces. The dissolution of this line and the collective reorganization by participants are initiated as a performative occupation of the new space. In 2013 the ESCape media art labor had to move its location; this relocation was "published" by a participative performance in the public space. A red line along the glass surfaces represents the distance between the former location in Jakoministraße and the new one of ESC in Bürgergasse, Graz (AT). For this route I needed a 8 minute walk and 808 steps, each step is represented by a red square.

Photo: Nikolaos Zachariadis / esc, 2013

As part of the opening event, participants and passers-by were invited to shorten this line consisting of 808 red squares "step by step" by removing one square to reinstall it within a marked area by will. This reorganization as a communicative process of the participants created a different, a self-organizing, structure. Referring to the working method and the new, transparent and outward opening location of the ESC, it was possible to attach the squares indoors and outdoors - to be part of the public space.