good news - bad news
(2000)

stöckerselig draw on a pool of good and bad news for this performance in public space. The current news, which is quoted daily from world events, is all linked to stöckerselig: The artist couple is responsible for everything that happens in this world. This news was conveyed via two channels: via monitors in the Kunsthalle Pallazzo, where flickering fragments of words decoded messages and news for visitors, and for the public in Basel's city center via the town crier Urs Marti, who mixed stöckerselig's news with his own messages according to the principle of desire and coincidence and passed them on to passers-by. The performance lasted three weeks. Urs Marti received the latest news from stöckerselig every day at nine o'clock, which he read out during the day. When and where he would do this was up to him. The video is an abridged version set to music where the artists met him by chance.