As part of The Absolutely Other, curated by Miriam Katz in 2010.
For Land Cruise, artist duo eteam purchased a set of garden plots in Northern Germany on eBay. The artists attempted to get to know the elderly farmers who tended to these plots. When their efforts failed, they declared the land to be a cruise ship and invited the farmers to come on board and take a trip from Germany to America. In the resulting six day “land cruise,” the passengers ate buffeted meals, watched comedy and musical performances, attended art auctions and more. Once they landed in New York, the group spent their time sightseeing, as evidenced in a digitally-manipulated photo album. Finally, in May of 2010, the gardeners received an invitation by their former landlords to come to Nevada. They crossed the continent by horse carriage, passing by road side attractions and a magic castle, until they arrived in Little Texas. Both the land cruise and the cross-continent voyage are documented in a slideshow.
eteam Landcruise, 2009-2010 HD video, garden furniture Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and Creative Capital, New York
Landcruise (single channel video) was one of several iteration of OS Grabeland which evolved over several years and finally resulted in eteam’s novel: Grabeland, published in 2020
Landcruise was also mentioned in “Kitchen Memories” by Lauren Cronk