eröffnung/opening: 5. Mai, 2006 | 19-23:00 6. Mai - 10. Juni, 2006

Sparwasser HQ | Torstrasse 161 | 10115 | Berlin | Mi-Fr 16-19, Sa 14-18 | Curator: Pia Fuchs (dt. ID v. Patricia Reed)

	Calendar Curator Text Austellung/Exhibition Larissa Fassler Ivana Franke Germaine Koh Stephan Kurr Jeff Preiss Åsa Ståhl Lectures Mark Paterson Christel Weiler + Barbara Gronau Johan Zetterquist mit Judith Manzoni Workshops Stephan Kurr + Jürgen Krusche Markus Miessen
		Fassler | No Contact Made: The Flower Project. 2000

Larissa Fassler

No Contact Made: The Flower Project. 2000 Performance-based Photography - 36 photos (20 X 30cm) with name and address of recipient. My work is based on interactions with the public in orchestrated situations and on documenting these relationships and their social contexts. I am interested in games, gestures and body language; in social performance and self-construction; and in strangers. No Contact Made: The Flower Project is a series of images of an on-going daily performance done in Berlin, Germany, of a random and anonymous delivery of flowers. The repetitive action/performance included leaving a bouquet of flowers and a card with the recipient’s name on a doorstep. A photograph was then taken. This daily performance continued for two months amounting to approximately thirty-six deliveries and photographs. Berlin was for me in many ways a very hard, grey and unfriendly city in which I found myself very alone and living as an outsider. I thus became intrigued with the idea of making anonymous contact, to break normal routines and to cause a small disruption in people's day-to-day lives. Larissa Fassler was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1975. She completed her BFA at Concordia University in 1999 and her MA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2003. Her work traverses performance-based photography, video, text and built objects and focus on the complexities of human relationships and emotions as they exist in day-to-day life, among people. Using the public as both subject and audience, her work documents situated and staged events that are carried out and performed by the public. Fassler has exhibited widely, including solo shows in Canada at Truck, Calgary; Articule, Montreal; YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto; Westernfront, Vancouver; La Centrale, Montreal and in Germany at S.O.X. 36, Berlin. Her group exhibitions include “Pedestian” at WestGermany, Berlin; The 21. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest, Kassel; “Take My Hand”, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City and ThreeWalls Gallery, Chicago; “TAPE291”, 291 Gallery, London; “ev+a 2003”, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick; “The Bigger Picture: Portraits from Ottawa”, The Ottawa Art Gallery and “Hold Your Breath”, Plovdiv Municipal Art Gallery, Part of the European Month of Culture, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Fassler currently lives and works in Berlin.