mapping5: einheizen
(2005)

On the shortest day of the year, December 21, 2005, from sunrise 08.11 to sunset 16.34, we will realize a performance/live action in a disused petrol station on the Via Nova in Rhäzüns, an overland speedway that was replaced by the A 13 in 1983. Our action is part of the site-specific intervention "Heizen" (Heating) by Gabriela and Lukas Gerber Bardill. For the duration of the exhibition from October 2005 to February 2005, an old cannon stove will be placed under the roofs of the petrol stations on both sides of the road, ready to be heated. We act as surveyors, hikers, mountaineers and craftsmen. Our instruments are ice axe, rope, newspaper, street chalk, tuba and various everyday materials. We feel, play, measure, conjure up and mark the area of the filling station and regularly heat up the oven. The extended surrounding space may be incorporated acoustically and with news from the daily newspaper. At the site of Gabriela and Lukas' artistic intervention, we create images of change in real time with our physical presence. After sunset, we will travel back to Zurich by train with all the materials, including two blocks of ice, and go directly to the Kunsthalle (arrival between 19.00 and 19.30). We will "heat up" the Kunsthalle with the material we have brought with us, including what we have experienced during the day.