This work is a VALUES ON DEMAND-Project, conceived by Andreas M. Kaufmann, dedicated to the Nigerian inventor of Afro Beat Fela Anikulapo Kuti and realized in cooperation with the electronic musician Gabriel Ananda.

The choreographic conception of the video animation is made for a nonstandard extended surface: Four single projections should be bonded to one single screen. This screen should always be related to the architectonical site.

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Bergkamen 2004 - 2028.

Site-specific architectural media sculpture at the Town Hall Gate roundabout. One slide is changed every year, thus the site specific sculpture contains a ritual and a process.

Technical data: 4 revolving projectors loaded in total with 24 slides.

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Castrop-Rauxel and Rhein Herne Canal 2004.

This collaborative project, which was open to a defined publicity, was realized in accordance with the Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl and the City of Castrop-Rauxel. The motives for the later projection onto the banks of the Rhein Herne Canal were created during a preceding workshop.

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Andreas Kaufmann asked over 100 pretty different people worldwide for a reaction towards a selection of public accessible images, all collected by him. Before being published, the resulting book has manifested itself in public two times: in the exhibition curated by Maria Anna Potocka "100%" at Bunkier Sztuki Krakow (2002) and in the exhibition: "Claude Leveque, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Dan Graham: Palais des arts - Present Distance" (Curator: Lydia Hempel / Site: "Palais im großen Garten", Dresden (2005).

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This is a simulation of a not realized project designed in collaboration with Thorsten Goldberg for the subway U2 at Berlin Alexanderplatz. 42 slide magazines are filled with slides showing different positions of the deaf-alphabet. Each slide-magazine contains one sentence written in deaf-alphabet. The passersby are enabled to read the text with the help of prepared papers showing the deaf-alphabet and its translation, while the pillars of the station function as projection screen.

Technical data: 42 carousel-projectors, 42 slide-magazines, 42 timer, grey paint.

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Hansa Gymnasium, Cologne 1996.

In the preliminary stages of the UNESCO exhibition project "Art Special Hansa" in Cologne's Hansagymnasium, I held a workhops with the students about what it means to say "No". With a LCD video projector, the video recordings of students screaming "NO!" in the mothertongue were projected onto the water's surface. This functioned as a mirror and cast the video image onto the blackboard.

Technical data: Water basin, video projector, video player with tape on loop, amplifier, loudspeaker.

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Lüdenscheid, 13. Nov. 1997.

Performative project in which a choreography for constantly moving architectural elements across a central square in the city of Lüdenscheid was decided through the application of certain game rules.

Technical data: Fork lift, palettes, participating "players".

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Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo 1993.

Twenty projectors, each containing one slide, hang from the ceiling and project an image onto the floor which has been selected by a person affiliatd to the Sagacho Exhibit Space. The projectors are in permanent motion due to the circulation of the air. The floor appears to sway.

Technical data: 20 projectors, 20 slides, cable, steel wire.

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