WOOLOO
SIGNS OF LIFE

Aluminum box, electronic system and components, 50 x 20 x 5 cm

Place: at the train station of Brueck

Zeichen des Lebens, a four-digit counter installed on the roof of the train station in the German village of Brück, keeps track of the shrinking town’s population: the individuals coming and going, dying and being born, become concrete, public representations of changes not normally noticed. A collaboration between Wooloo and the municipality of Brück, Zeichen des Lebens reflects the global process of urbanization, of widespread migration from village and town to city, and the attendant depopulation of small communities. Constantly in flux, Zeichen des Lebens becomes a collective portrait of Brück and its inhabitants, one which reflects their own presence—or absence—back to them. The piece functions as a shared visual center within the community—both a reminder of and a challenge to its disappearance

About Wooloo:
Wooloo is a Danish artist group founded in 2002. Wooloo creates social experiments in collaborative participation, exploring strategies in which several people take a role in the art-making process: Wooloo has produced U.S. work visas for artists, had artists date each other, and coordinated several large-scale hosting programs in cities around the world. Wooloo also operates the online community wooloo.org, which connects the resources of more than 22,000 cultural producers internationally. Wooloo has implemented projects both independently and at international venues including Artists Space (New York), the Third Guangzhou Triennial (Guangzhou), Manifesta 8 (Murcia), and the Sixth Momentum Biennial (Moss), and was recently nominated for the 2011 Visible Award.

Contakt: Sixten Kai Nielson, Martin Rosengaard
www.wooloo.org