Topography of Desire

Installation, performance and video-installation at the Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, 2002.

Topography of Desire is a cluster of works produced during several years of commuting between Berlin and the US, specifically Charlotte, NC.

A certain symmetry became soon apparent between these two superficially very disparate cities. For one of course the name, a historic name, which was chosen in honor of Charlotte von Mecklenburg (Germany), who was married to King George III of England in the 17 hundreds.

Topography of Desire is a somewhat irreverent transposition of a subjectively registered urban condition into fiction. The characters populating this work are timeless time-travelers between such realities. The installation includes: Paintings, Photography, Objects, various installations, a performance during the opening and a video-installation.

The Fairy Queen and a man named 'P'

A man named 'P' 

existing in the linear, hierarchical,
superstructure of the western world
a man named 'P' turns to his instruments
to measure the distance between
time and time and stars and stars.

The Fairy Queen

She may be called Charlotte who gave her name and her crown to a city she never knew, in a land she has never seen. She may be called Blue Fairy, the one who guides boyhood to manhood. Whatever her name, she resists any one place and will not keep time. She seeks and she always has already seen. She is art and sex and fear and fearlessness, female dynamism is the law of her nature. Earth husbands herself… transcending time and place, she hovers above. Distant and absorbed in her task, she appears oblivious, she is lost and at home at once in any place. She is a cosmic tramp.

(free after Edmund Spenser's epic Poem: The Fairy Queen)