The following images are an orchestrated series of visual events that were designed specifically for the space they occured. They involve a human presence whose role is more navigator than performer. The visual image remains the carrier of content.
Performance/Installations 1999-2006
Satellites, Outposts and a Ridiculous Leap of Faith.
2006
PVC banner.
1 x 4 meters.
2006
PVC banner.
1 x 4 meters.
The next 11 images: "Satellites, Outposts and a Ridiculous Leap of Faith" A collaborative project with Bettina Schülke. At the MAK, Museum of Applied and Contemporary Art, Vienna. February, 21st, and LUME, Center for New Media and Design, Helsinki, 2006.
Main Frame
2006
6 dome tents and a 3 x 3 x 3 meter copper tube frame.
2006
6 dome tents and a 3 x 3 x 3 meter copper tube frame.
Assembling the "Satellite" The MAK, Vienna.
Work Stations
Raton basket with wood frame for the "Outpost" with the "Satellite".
Raton basket with wood frame for the "Outpost" with the "Satellite".
The MAK, Vienna.
Ascending
C-print., 60 x 70 cm.
C-print., 60 x 70 cm.
"Front-man" Herwig Kienzl climbing up to attach the safety line that suspends
the "Nomad" and the "Satellite". The MAK, Vienna.
the "Nomad" and the "Satellite". The MAK, Vienna.
Drawing for the Set.
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Building Up
2003
Mixed mediums.
13 meters x 4 m. Diameter.
2003
Mixed mediums.
13 meters x 4 m. Diameter.
Bettina Schulke with Herwig Kienzl callibrating the tension of the wire to hold 95 bales of straw onto the frame of the "Outpost". The MAK, Vienna.
![Alexander Viscio Performance/Installations 1999-2006 Multi media Installation/Performance.](http://d3zr9vspdnjxi.cloudfront.net/artistInfo/alexand1/thumb/153.jpg?0 ""Satellites, Outposts and a Ridiculous Leap of Faith"")
"Satellites, Outposts and a Ridiculous Leap of Faith"
2006
Multi media Installation/Performance.
9 meters x 4 meters x 4 meters.
2006
Multi media Installation/Performance.
9 meters x 4 meters x 4 meters.
Outpost: 95 bales of hay.
Satellite: 6 dome tents connected by copper
tubing.
Satellite: 6 dome tents connected by copper
tubing.
![Alexander Viscio Performance/Installations 1999-2006 Multi media Installation/Performance.](http://d3zr9vspdnjxi.cloudfront.net/artistInfo/alexand1/thumb/154.jpg?0 ""Satellites, Outposts and a Ridiculous Leap of Faith"")
"Satellites, Outposts and a Ridiculous Leap of Faith"
2006
Multi media Installation/Performance.
3 meters x 3 meters x 3 meters.
2006
Multi media Installation/Performance.
3 meters x 3 meters x 3 meters.
Various views of multiple live video streams from global points uploaded and projected onto the Satellite.
![Alexander Viscio Performance/Installations 1999-2006 95 bales of straw, copper, steel cable, 6 dome tents and a chicken.](http://d3zr9vspdnjxi.cloudfront.net/artistInfo/alexand1/thumb/36.jpg?0 ""Satellites, Outposts and a Ridiculous Leap of Faith"")
"Satellites, Outposts and a Ridiculous Leap of Faith"
2006
95 bales of straw, copper, steel cable, 6 dome tents and a chicken.
2006
95 bales of straw, copper, steel cable, 6 dome tents and a chicken.
The MAK, Vienna.
Ascending towards the Satellite.
2006
Film still.
Variable.
2006
Film still.
Variable.
"Nomad", Alexander Viscio leaves the "Outpost" wearing the mirrored over-alls that were designed to reflect light in dark cramped spaces and enters the Satellite. The MAK, Vienna.
The library inside the Outpost.
2006
Mixed
Variable.
2006
Mixed
Variable.
LUME, Helsinki, FIN.
![Alexander Viscio Performance/Installations 1999-2006](http://d3zr9vspdnjxi.cloudfront.net/artistInfo/alexand1/thumb/40.jpg?0 "Building up the "Outpost"")
Building up the "Outpost"
5 meters x 4 m. Diameter.
5 meters x 4 m. Diameter.
Construction materials and other detritus find around the community applied to re-inforce the "Outpost". LUME, Helsinki.
Fussabstreifer and the Occasional Invaders.
2003
Poster
70 x 50cm.
2003
Poster
70 x 50cm.
Installation/performance at the MAK, Museum for Applied and Contemporary Kunst. Vienna, Aut.
Fussabstreifer and the Occasional Invaders.
2003
Printed matter.
Installation view.
2003
Printed matter.
Installation view.
3000 announcement cards inside the entrance of the Georg Kargl Galerie, Vienna.
Live at the MAK, Fussabstreifer and the Occasional Invaders 2003
Visitor entering the Museum and stepping onto the glass pressed against my body with 500 field crickets inside with me who's chirping was amplified into the main hsll of the Museum.
Live at the MAK, Fussabstreifer and the Occasional Invaders 2003
A video projection of visitors walking over my body and the amplified chirping of 500 crickets engulfed the main hall of the Museum.
Cleaning up.
2003
2003
Live at the MAK, "Fussabstreifer and the Occasional Invaders"
Foto der woche
2003
News Article/review.
2003
News Article/review.
Article appearing in the news magazine "Profil".
A Cocktail Before Dinner
2002
Announcement card.
17 x 14cm.
2002
Announcement card.
17 x 14cm.
A Cocktail Before Dinner
2002
Artist, Glass and a 1 ton floor-jack.
Variable.
2002
Artist, Glass and a 1 ton floor-jack.
Variable.
Performance/Insallation view of my body pressed against the ceiling of Palais Epstein with a large sheet of glass and a single floor-jack. Vienna, November, 16, 2002.
Easy Killer
2001
Instant soup mix with poison and enamel paint on glass.
30 x 80 cm.
2001
Instant soup mix with poison and enamel paint on glass.
30 x 80 cm.
From the show, "Easy Killers and other Softwear".
Easy Killers and other Softwear
2001
"Schwimflugle" PVC.
300 x 300 x 300cm.
2001
"Schwimflugle" PVC.
300 x 300 x 300cm.
I was rolled around inside a giant "schwimflugle" during the opening. Galerie Bernsteiner, Vienna. Photo: Elizabeth Wind.
Easy Killers and other Softwear.
2001
PVC
300 x 300 x 300cm.
2001
PVC
300 x 300 x 300cm.
Photo: Elizabeth Wind.
Easy Killers and other Softwear.
2001
PVC
2001
PVC
Photo: Elizabeth Wind.
Easy Killers and other Softwear.
2001
Video still.
2001
Video still.
Video-still from the film, "Vehicles for Another Landscape". Director, Michal Kosakowski.
Easy Killers and other Softwear.
2001
Video still.
2001
Video still.
Video-still from the film, "Vehicles for Another Landscape". Director, Michal Kosakowski.
Johnnie Walker's Sobriety Test
1999
Wind.
80 x 50cm.
1999
Wind.
80 x 50cm.
Photos: Elizabeth Wind.
Loading up.
I navigate a giant
"Walker" filled with 5000 eggs through out the space until all the eggs seap through the basket and onto the black floor of "Semper Depot", at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna.
Photos: Elizabeth Wind.
"Walker" filled with 5000 eggs through out the space until all the eggs seap through the basket and onto the black floor of "Semper Depot", at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna.
Photos: Elizabeth Wind.
Walking on egg shells.
Photos: Elizabeth Wind.
Vehicles for Another Landscape.
Photos: Elizabeth Wind.
Val.
2001
C-print
40 x 40cm.
2001
C-print
40 x 40cm.
Video-stills from, "Vehicles for Another Landscape" Director/Camera: Michal Kosakowski.
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