SET UP TOURS - navigations in the periphery of freedom

Installation, web project

SMART Project Space Amsterdam, I Know The World, 2008 - curated by

Lise Nellemann, org. Hilde de Bruijn

rum46, Aarhus DK - ... 2008

C_SAM, The Art Building / Århus Kunstbygning, Minimal portalen -web projectet POP Up Art - 2007

SparwasserHQ, Berlin (D) I Know the World 3 - 2007 In colab. with Tanja Nellemann.

In the installation: a digital text-light display, a shelf for ‘souvenirs’ and pr. material, ‘snow balls’ with text-pieces, an armchair, carpet formed as clouds, a recreated birds house, cut out airplanes...

SMART Project space , Amsterdam -

I Know the World, 2008

http://smartprojectspace.nl/exhibitions/44.xml?artist=1664&work=2295

Set UP Tours presents alternative ways to navigate the current (and expanding) ‘travel and life style industry’, and comments critically and humorously on concepts such as exotic holiday destinations, the free cosmopolitan life, the ability to navigate in any city - without daily commitments.

The project has been carried out in varied formats: - a web project mirroring and ‘ twisting’ the travel agencies web presentations - mirroring a travel agencies window presentation in the urban space and finely recreated as a hybrid domestic situation/travel agency in the exhibition space. In this final set up Set UP Tours drag the travel industry and tourist/resident experience into the (semi) private realm, where the viewer becomes the armchair traveller.