B-thing
By: Gelatin ; [text by Tex Rubinowitz].
Publisher: Buchhandlung Walther König
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Gelatin (Artists' group) -- Exhibitions.; Performance art -- Exhibitions.; Artists' books.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: In 2000 Austrian art group Gelatin built a narrow balcony with smuggled materials on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. At 6:00 a.m. on a June morning, after removing a window with suction cups, the artists posed individually on the balcony while a helicopter flew by and photographed the illegal performance.
Notes: [ ... The B-Thing uncovers the truth behind the rumours of Gelatin's construction of an improvised balcony on the 91st floor of the World Trade Centre in New York ...].