MICHAEL SHAW
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The Lost Space of Stiller 2009
Max Frisch Archive, ETH Zurich, Zentrum, Haupthalle, CH, 2009


Collaboration with architect Markus Seifermann on the 2009 exhibition The Lost Space of Stiller - A Spatial Approximation.

“Three outsize wooden freight containers grouped around a scene resembling a living room, with a couch, TV, carpet and chandelier. This mobile ‘apartment’ is the home of the imagined figure of the «identity stalker». He collects clues to Stiller’s putative identity, which he plans to compile into
​a whole – a project which is doomed to failure. In a museum-like bathroom in a container, for example, a number of suspended razors hum an electrifying, repetitive rhythm. In a glass case opposite there are glass bowls with landscapes made up of whiskers – a «shaving diary», as the accompanying text explains. A projection in the dining room shows Zurich buildings where people by the name of Stiller live. From one corner of the hall fragments of conversation flow upwards from a number of gramophone horns, while in the third container six dummy torsos are suspended on meat hooks over a long table containing meat grinders. In the installation film, objets trouvés, sounds and images merge into a partly buoyant, partly threatening overall work of art, with the name 'Stiller’ becoming a universal metaphor for a disowned identity.” 
Taken from "Lost Space Found - Architecture with a Story" by Noemie Schwaller - Architonic.

Artwork by Michael Shaw included: 
Forest 2008 and Cascade 2007 plus two site specific works were made for the exhibition - Ear Worms and Rock Around The Clock 2009.

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