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The site-specific
installation "Albino" cooperatively created by Israeli artist
Adi mendler and German artist Christoph Zeidler consists of an elevated
office space using two large metall office closets with desks and chairs
on top of them as well as of a complicated labyrinth made from wire-mesh
and housing hundreds of living mice. These mice will be fed and well kept
while inhabiting their temporary home and they will enjoy a much larger
space of activity than what is normally conceded to them. Consequently no
traumatic experience will occur to them, they in contrary will appreciate
the discovery of their new surroundings and the extensive space inside
their multi-leveled and ramified habitat. However the connotations between
an office space and a labyrinth are various and evoke lots of parallels.
The allusion of busy and efficient administration procedures, associated
with the mice's permanently active movements creates a closed circuit of
associations. The claustrophobic environment of today's large-space
offices is compared to the enclosure of the cage so that the equation
between working man and agitating mice is exposed. Yet, Mendler and
Zeidler are not in the business of criticizing conditions of human working
situation nor in turning the space into a metaphor of post-modern living.
They are dealing with the way two differently shaped and designed spatial
constructions are penetrating each other permanently and two systems with
fundamentally varying speed are reflecting each other. Both spaces are
contrasting, disturbing their inherent meaning and thus interacting in a
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