1
Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil (F)
Floral work on the roof of a building, visible from the terrace of the Conference Centre Tower. Motif based on the international ground/air code.
Vidéo The art of Camouflage in your own home, in the Schaffner DIY store.
2
Stefan Banz (CH)
Swing installed in a glass cage. Because there is no front, it is possible to sit on the swing but the back wall stops it from swinging.
3
Olivier Blanckart (F)
A whole house is transformed by adhesive tape.
4
Etienne Bossut (F)
A polyester hole is made in the ground.
5
Olaf Breuning (CH)
Mannequins, clothes, wigs... the artist uses available materials in the Loeb shop, and becomes incorporated in the shop's decoration.
6
Roderick Buchanan (SCO)
Peloton. The entire 1999 Tour de France seen from a helicopter. Video shown in the window of Steiner Radio TV.
7
Christoph Büchel (CH)
The whole city for rent or sale. Shops, museums, banks, churches, administrative buildings, cafés, restaurants. For Rent and For Sale signs spring up all over the city. For all information there is a London telephone number. Loudspeakers installed in New Oxford Street broadcast the various requests live.
8
Patrick Corillon (B)
Notes on urban fittings and fixtures: public telephones, sewers, dustbins, public benches, public lighting, bicycle parking. "When you put your head in the dustbin and you talk into it, it creates a specific echo which gives you the impression of being in a palace with an endless number of rooms (...)."
9
Simone Decker (LUX)
Giant shark and octopus in the middle of the city: a series of photos incorporated in the information at the Tourist Office. Poster programme.
10
Jeremy Deller (GB)
Photographs of Bienne printed on coffee cream lids handed out in all Swiss cafés (as from 2001).
11
Daniel Firman (F)
In the Schaffner DIY store you can buy a hammer and receive a CD containing a typology of possible hammer sounds.
12
Jean-Damien Fleury (CH)
Prospectuses are handed in all households and any shops. Conjuring and manual choreography."The art of making things in shops disappear".
13
Peter Garfield (USA)
A house flies away (or is squashed?). Poster programme.
14
Ulrike Gruber (D)
Climbing handles on the east façade of the Conference Centre Tower. Between impossible sports circuit and concrete melanoma.
15
Fabrice Gygi (CH)
Creation of a safety zone in the forecourt of the Conference Centre. Wire mesh fences on shaped posts as well as revolving gates (entrance and exit).
16
Alexander Gyoerfi (D)
Techno music made with rackets, palms, tennis balls, basket balls and beach balls. Video broadcast on TV screens in the M Electronic shop.
17
Jens Haaning (DAN)
Free admission for foreigners to the city pool throughout the exhibition.
18
Eric Hattan (CH)
A sneezing rubbish bin. Randomly throughout the day, a mechanism ejects paper and other rubbish from the bin.
A light set beside the Suze canal has been strangely twisted.
19
Lori Hersberger (CH)
Bikers' choreography and Burnout in front of the Conference Center on the day of the opening. During the show, Bienne will become the favourite destination for bikers.
20
Henrik Plenge Jakobsen (DAN)
Three times a day smoke escapes from the bedroom of a large villa, visible from the Place Centrale. A scheduled fire ?
Angst Tree. Red light globes decorate a tree, like Christmas lights. A word shines out from each tree: ANGST.
21
Surasi Kusolwong (THAI)
Free for all Project. 3000 plastic items are imported from Thailand. They are fixed to the balustrade running along the Suze canal. Passers-by are invited to help themselves. The objects taken away are gradually replaced.
22
Peter Land (DAN)
Hello I don't speak your language... A tourist hits town... Poster programme.
23
Abigail Lane (GB)
In Every Dreamhomne a Heartache. A half-human, half-doglike groan escapes from a ventilation duct.
24
Lang/Baumann (CH)
Electro-mechanical ride. The proposition takes the logic of entertainment and embellishment of shopping malls into account.
25
Mathieu Mercier (F)
A multi-socket module, like a kind of plaster beehive, is hung from the ceiling of the Schaffner DIY store. It makes it possible to plug in all the electrical gadgets used.
26
Thom Merrick (USA)
A gigantic inflatable dinosaur (Triceratop) is wedged into the atrium of the Conference Center.
27
Jonathan Monk (GB)
What a Wonderful World Project. On the back of a truck, a Jazz Band plays the famous Louis Armstrong piece. The musicians always take the same route, which lasts as long as the piece. What a Wonderful World would be played over and over... the world would soon cease to be so wonderful.
featuring: Sidewalk Jazz Band
Dates/Daten: 17 06 (17:00), 20 06 (17:30),
06 07 (18:00), 08 08 (18:00), 15 08 (17:30)
28
Olivier Mosset (CH)
Maillol's famous sculpture Hommage A Cézanne was originally in the Jardin des Tuileries. The sculpture has been moved (close to the Louvre). All that remains is the stand with the inscription "A Cézanne". The stand is duplicated and installed in Bienne.
29
Gianni Motti (CH)
The day of the opening overlaps with the European Marathon Championship in Bienne. Gianni Motti makes the marathon three metres longer.
As the victim of a car crash a month before the show, Gianni Motti parks his wrecked car in the Rue Centrale.
30
Daniel Pflumm (D)
Alteration of illuminated publicity panel located in the station.
Two CNN reporters try to communicate. In vain. Video shown on the screens of the Radio TV Steiner shop.
31
Philippe Ramette (F)
Space for the future. A cement stand is set up on a roundabout in downtown Bienne. The copper plate is still untouched, the threaded rod ready to receive the statue... the stand waits for the next hero to turn up.
Viewpoint. On the roof of a building, set on a mast (and thus out of reach), a chair (seat and back) offers the ideal viewpoint over the exhibition and its surroundings.
32
Relax (CH)
Breadcannon A machine usually designed for catapulting tennis balls is used to throw bits of bread for birds. The piece operates at the Colonie des Cygnes.
33
Christian Robert-Tissot (CH)
The word CHANGE written with white tiles on the roof of the regional bank.
34
Daniel Ruggiero (CH)
Sand pit separator A separator is set up on existing sand pits, and divides the play area into four boxes. The children are kept apart from one another, and can thus concentrate better and so be more productive.
35
Roman Signer (CH)
Dam in the Suze canal. Elastic ropes are laid one on top of the other and stretched across the canal. When the water level rises, the ropes break with the pressure of the current.
36
Nika Spalinger (CH)
Ventilation duct of a motorway tunnel under the city of Bienne. Given the difficulties encountered by those using the road to cross Bienne, the artist creates the acoustic conditions of a motorway tunnel.
37
Uri Tzaig (ISR)
Trance. Each player selects 10 marbles and places them on the board. The 20 selected marbles chosen can now be used by both players. Each player in turn has to moves one or more marbles. The game continues as long as the players are interested. Video shown round the clock on the TV screen in the Rock Café.
38
Erwin Wurm (A)
Be a Dog for One Minute: a stand for activating a One Minute Scuplture. Poster programme.
39
Dana Wyse (CAN)
Pill packets called "Protestant Powder", "Be Blonde", "Be an Artist", "Understand your mother immediately", etc. are put on sale in a chemist's shop (Pharmacy City).
CP
Centre PasquArt
1954-1991
The nine Swiss Sculpture Exhibitions in Biel
Marianne Grunder
Jürg Altherr, Ueli Berger, Gunter Frentzel, Erica Pedretti, Carmen Perrin, Christoph Rhis, Jean Stern
17 06 - 03 09 2000