1997
Installation with video
Video: Tomorrow is Tracy’s birthday
(Tracy) Homemaker
Table, stool, monitor, VP, kitchen apron, pot holder, double bed with bedspread, chair, 1 pair of nylon stockings, fan, displayed lettering
A divided room depicts two household scenarios reflecting Tracy as both a housewife and mother. In the left-hand section of this space is a television showing the video Tomorrow is Tracy’s birthday / hands kneading dough. Seen in the other half of the room is a bedroom not being unused at the moment. The back walls of both rooms are labeled with a continuous sentence: “Tracy likes being a full-time homemaker… and works really hard with the kids.”.
Kiefer Hablitzel Competition, Basel Fair
1997
Installation with video and sound
(Tracy) No Longer Holiday
Half of a double bed; bedside table without drawer, with a duvet and hidden loudspeaker; bedside table, TV monitor, inverted wooden stand, 4 rolls of carpeting, VP, ACP
An unintelligible muffled dialogue between a man and woman rises from the bedside table with duvet. On the TV monitor’s screen, integrated at the back of the bedside table, one sees a young room-service attendant carefully making up the hotel bed (in slow motion).
Kunsthalle, Bern
Swiss Confederation Competition, Basel Fair (1998)