In 2004 we were one of the recipients of the Marion Ermer Preis. The price came with an exhibition at the Neue Museum Weimar, in Weimar Germany, which in 1869 had been opened as one of the very first German museum buildings. For the show we formalized research results surrounding a 10 Acre lot we had bought in ebay in North Eastern Nevada, site unseen and matched scale and layout of our models to the specifics of the museum.
Results were “Airstrip for Houseplanes,” a paper tape wall drawing of the Enola Gay Hangar situated on a former military airbase in Wendover, Utah
and “Bridge Experiment #2” – a beam bridge construction that was inspired by finding ways to “overpass” a public dirt road that crossed our 10 Acre desert lot right in the middle.
The beam bridge was designed and constructed by Peter Benz, who used as main building material empty beer crates, that we could temporarily lend from a beer distributor and return for further use after the show.