interactive video projection (21x 9 feet), ambient desert soundtrack,
hat with LED lights and belt with flashlights to illuminate visitors, natural grasses
We activated this piece for several weeks in Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2003, in Halle 14,
Leipzig, Germany, 2003 and in Mumok, Vienna, Austria, 2004
“Empty Offer” started with a 21x 9 feet (3 m x 7 m) feet video projection of a desert lot in Utah. When visitors entered the gallery and wished to participate, they posed in front of the projection. We digitally photographed them in front of the background scene, saved the image and then re-projected that new image back onto the wall, therewith provided a new background for the next visitor, who had to arrange himself with his predecessor(s). On the days, we didn’t offer this sort of access to the land, the emergence and disappearance of over 90 visitors, who had entered the situation from either Brooklyn, Leipzig or Vienna, could be watched in a slow fading loop, accompanied by a desert sound collage.