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website http://www.go-use.eu, as well as in the lab-
oratory on site, visitors are encouraged to express
themselves and share their experiences in the form
of photos or stories on the theme “My Europe”.
Look for the headline “Participate” and “Stories
from Europe” on the website. Information is also
available in the exhibition passport.
The Pharos Arts Foundation was pleased to col-
laborate with the Goethe-Institut in Paris and
with a number of organisations in Cyprus for the
exhibition.
United States of Europe - Artists’Presentations
REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
(Artist duo: Henrik Mayer, born 1971 & Mar-
tin Keil, born 1968, Germany)
Risk Society
Projection and flat screen 26: 15 min, HDV 16:9
2011, loop
This project examines the prospects and life per-
spectives of young people in today’s Germany.
They inherit the legacy of a society that is aware
that economic growth and consumption won’t pro-
vide the determinant odds for development. The
sociologist Ulrich Beck described the sociological
change from wealth production towards risk pro-
duction with the term
Risk society
in his book of
1986,
Risk society
. This transition takes place on
the micro level of people as well as on the macro
level of corporate and global changes. It comprises
social, economic and political dimensions. In the
exhibition, these young students have their say
about their plans and expectations.
REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT (which could be
translated with “Cleaning Service” or “Purification
Society”) is an artists’project group that works at the
point of intersection between art and social reality.
AConnection (2011)
Kaarina Kaikkonen (born 1952, Finland)
Site-specific public space installations
For the United States of Europe exhibition the art-
ist presents new site-specific installations related to
the space and to present day Europe. In each city
her work is adapted to a venue and the site. One of
the new pieces that Kaarina creates for the exhibi-
tion is called
A Connection
, shirts in many colours
and sizes represent connections between people
and countries. The work has been presented once
in Lodz, Poland, where the shirts were attached to
a long pipe running from a walking zone in the city,
leading the visitor to the main exhibition space in
an old textile factory.
Kaarina has so far created one more work for
U.S.E., “Where is my home?”, a house made of
bags and luggage of different kinds. It can be seen
as a small house that is collapsing or that isn’t com-
pletely constructed. The piece tells a story about
different kinds of people and states trying to live
together, but it’s difficult...The work was installed
at Helsinki Main Railway station and at Vilnius In-
21st century Iconoclasm by Kyriaki Costa
Lab Presentation