Heidi Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative MediaEngram Abreaction Release Zone

A collaborative work based on Joanna Spyris novel Heidi The entire work consisted of a fabricated set a group of partial and full lifesize rubber figures two large backdrop paintings and a video tape shot entirely on the set The set was installed at the center of the gallery Galerie Krinzinger Vienna We were interested in imitating film and television production and exaggerating the fractured process of film Paul McCarthy In Heidi we toyed with this illusionary nature by treating the doubles and standins for the actors as obvious sculpture more in the manner of a puppet show than traditional film Mike Kelley