Park – A Plan for Escape, 2002
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany, 2002
Installation of a “park within a park” in Karlsaue Park which consisted of various architectural elements commonly
used in the design of modern parks.
Components include: a palm tree; an agave; a rose bush; a large lump of lava rock; a light-blue, flat, oval pool; a folding
chair; a lamp post; a pink bench; a spherical, blue telephone box with the logo ‘Telemar’; a field of square concrete tiles
set into the lawn in a chessboard pattern; a path made of tiles; a long row of small stones; and a modernist windowless
concrete pavilion. The pavilion had a light box on one side (showing a graphic map of the park) and a transparent screen
onto which a film was projected from the inside of the building, discernible after dark. The film consisted of a montage
of images from the park scenario itself interspersed with sequences from films such as Antonioni’s La Notte or Blow Up
in which actors either perform against the backdrop of a park or modernist architecture.
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