falter 33/00 sofa
session in the press
august 2000
| maybe it was some kind of revenge, but the cynical tone in the falter article is obvious: should neil curtis have said more to the falter-reporter during his 60 minutes non-speak performance? |
falter 33/00
this article was found on the last page of the falter issue (33/00), vienna's weekly magazine:
zoo - menschen der woche (zoo - people of the week): text at the picture: "you HAVE to be artist, if you also take your sofa with you to go to a location: multimedia-man Neil Curtis shows his 'Sofa Session' with gay and lesbian young people".
"you are not sitting symetrical", a guest of the exhibition complains about Curtis' body-posture. for a photosession to portray young gays and lesbians the multimediaman placed his own sofa onto a green meadow. the young people have been digitally photographed, and finally the artist invented a soap-story around the results - which can now be seen at the café willendorf in vienna. he also brought his own sofa to the opening and performed a soap-opera "live": sitting still for exactly one hour ("this is the time of a melrose place show"), exactly like on this picture. but the symmetry wasn't always exact. what lead to complains.
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