Monika Wührer
Wuzler
your presence leads to conflict
what would I do with a brain if I had one
viennese lounge - velvet lounge
Project : Soccer
interactive installationSpielboden Dornbirn, 1998, FC Lustenau
Acedemie of fine arts, 1997, Austria
Semperdepot, 1997, Vienna
BUSINESS, SPORT AND ART MEET
I was interested in the analogous nature of being an artist and being a sportsman. In this case the professional soccer, and the most actively played sport by artists, the bar-foosball are a good match. To be able to get in touch with the soccer players I needed to talk the managers into a great deal, which was a whole package of mergandise products and a hole lot of publicity. For a hole year I went to a lot of the soccer games and participated being a fan. 3 of the major soccerteams colaborated. I organized 3 events: the professional players did play the visitors in exiting fussball games. sport reporters where there to entertain and also to play the referee. The Fan close where sold at the event and also a non defined fanwear, dealing as a catalogue was created and sold.
The Foosball table was created in colaboration with Frank Sceiderbauer and is made out of materials used for flightcases. It is easy to fold and to transport.