El Lissitzky's proposal for a street decoration in Vitebsk

The first episode of IMAGINARY PROPERTY took place in Vanabbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL). It is focussed on their most recent acquisition, a so far unknown piece by El Lissitzky. The project researches the way, in which the museum configures, builds, installs, uses and performs the relationships to the objects that are supposed to be owned, preserved and displayed as its property. Or: how does the museum produce a spatio-temporal domain in conformity with its own concept which has to relate back to the original idea of granting to the public some controlled and temperate access to the realm of collective imagination?

The pilot of the IMAGINARY PROPERTY series was produced in Vanabbemuseum Eindhoven in the framework of the "Academy" exhibition in the course of autumn 2006. It is supposed to work as an interface that should provide an idea about the full potential of the project.

The original artwork is exhibited in the center of the video installation. Three projections are screened against the walls of the room from the base of a specially constructed pedestal. One TV monitor shows the piece itself in the room, a second one plays interviews. In one corner of the room one finds an editing table with the original video footage and editing software as well as a burn station.