Surveillance Panorama no. 5: Competing Agendas.
Recorded with a computer controlled network camera at the Deutsche Börse Frankfurt.
Live - transmitted, printed and assembled at the Fotomuseum Winterthur.
Friday, June 8th from 0:00 to 23:59. One image per minute, total 1440 images.
Fotomuseum Winterthur, STATUS – 24 contemporary documents.
Live photo-installation Competing Agendas: 1440 laser prints in chronological order,
including timetable. Recorded with computer controlled network camera at the Deutsche Börse Frankfurt. Live - one image per minute - transmitted, printed and assembled in Winterthur, during the entire day of the opening - Friday, June 8th, from 0:00 to 23:59.
Total 1440 images, dimensions 1430 / 372 cm, timetable 30 / 42 cm.
Still image 11:44
Live Transmission Frankfurt - Winterthur, 00:40 First two columns
10:30
11:00 Press preview, Interview
20:00 Opening
23:50 Last images, end opening.
Framed version: Panorama including 24 hours timetable of
1. Stock Exchange 2. Media Gallery 3. Visitors Gallery plus Production facts on June 8th. Inkjet print 133 × 396 cm, 2012
Competing Agenda Option 2: Box 22 x 31 x 21 cm with 1440 Laserprints to reiinstall the original panorama from 8.June 2012 on the same wall. Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur
Competing Agenda Option 2: Box 22x31x21 cm with 1440 Laserprints A4 bound to 6 volumes. Each volume contains 240 Images, 1 Timediagramm, 1 Installation still from 8. June 2012
Competing Agenda Option 2: The box includes an instruction manual.
Competing Agendas, 2012
Recorded with a computer-controlled network
camera at the Deutsche Börse Frankfurt;
transmitted, printed, and assembled live
at the Fotomuseum Winterthur;
one image per minute, total 1440 images,
for twenty-four hours from 0:00 to 23:59,
Friday, June 8, 2012
Competing Agenda was commissioned for the opening of the exhibition STATUS – 24 Documents of Today at Fotomuseum Winterthur. It was a live panorama installation, assembled during the day of the opening. One image a minute was transmitted from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to the Fotomuseum, printed in the exhibition space, and added to the panorama. When the exhibition opened at 6 p.m., three quarters of the panorama was completed. When the opening ended at midnight, the final image was mounted on the wall.
A computer-controlled network camera was installed in the visitor’s gallery of the stock exchange, above the trading floor. Although trading is now virtual, there are still traders working on the trading floor for PR purposes. Inside the rings, traders make their transactions on multi-screen computer terminals. On the balcony, there is a visitors’ gallery for guided tours, partitioned off with a glass pane, and a media gallery with TV and radio studios. The trading floor has become a showroom for the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, aimed at the public and the media. Monitors with market data and a news ticker with headlines from the newspaper FAZ on the balustrades of the gallery further nourish the illusion that actual relevant trading can still be observed on the trading floor, which has been turned into a set in order to generate images. As in the installation, trading, and image production are intertwined, both determined by increasing acceleration.
There are three versions of Competing Agenda. Version 1 was the live panorama installation at Fotomuseum Winterthur, which was destroyed after the exhibition. Version 2, Option 2, is a box with six bound volumes, containing all the images and an instruction manual for the reinstallation of the work. It can either be exhibited as an object or used for an installation of the panorama, thus destroying the object. Version 3 is a framed inkjet print of the panorama with the title and various timelines printed on the white border. Timeline A indicates the opening hours of stock exchanges around the world. Timeline B indicates the broadcasts from the media gallery. Timeline C shows the schedule of the guided tours in the visitors’ gallery. Timeline D shows a selection of headlines from the FAZ news ticker.