2000 List shows use cutting-edge technology as artistic tool One of the works in Selfportrait.map an exhibit of works by Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault at the List Center.
Technical innovations are of themselves just tools and resources.
Much of their work focuses on the abandoned interiors, resonating with the presence of those who once occupied the space or the activities that took place there. Stasi City is a four-projection installation that explores the controversial history of the former headquarters of the East German secret police. The juxtaposition of lateral and vertical shifts through a labyrinth of corridors, interrogation rooms and doors reveals the subtle psychology of the space and indicates the power relations, surveillance and paranoia that characterized the Cold War. Projected on a single surface, it disjointedly follows the sisters through an abandoned house, replete with slamming doors, hints of telekinesis and amorphous shapes writhing beneath the wallpaper. The Wilsons live and work in London, where they were recently nominated for the 1999 Turner Prize, an annual award sponsored by the Tate Gallery which is given to a promising new visual artist under age 40.