Ariane Mueller, Martin Ebner

2008 – (ongoing)

Institution:
Goethe Institute New York / Ludlow 38, 2008 (Stefan Kalmàr)
La Cueva de Cristal, Buenos Aires 2010 (Hella Gerlach)
CCA Center for Contemporary Art Tbilisi, 2012 (Wato Tsereteli)

Location:
New York, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Tbilisi, Vilnius, outside on buildings

Duration:
1-2 months each

Synopsis:
In most iterations the curtain consisted in dark-blue heavy fabric fixed on a three side metal structure and hung on the facade of buildings. It stretched from 2.5 meter to 1.2, covering the upper parts of people gathering in the so indicated protected area at the entrance of the building.
Conceived and commissioned for the first time for New York it should provide shadow in the screechingly hot Ludlow 38 Goethe space during summer, and should also provide a possibility for unnoticed drinking in the street, factually prohibited in New York.
It became a transferable concept to function as a kind of protected area in public space for soliciting, since all upper body activities were invisible, while people were not actually hiding.

Technical Details:
Metal rods, suspensions (wire), blue cloth,

Dimensions:
variable, depending on the existing architecture, but app. 4 x 2 meters.