Peter Weibel

In the installation, huge knife blades, which appear to be bloodstained, brutally penetrate the space. From a fixed location, where the camera is positioned to film the space and its contents, a simplified map of Europe without political boundaries is composed of the various color fields within the space. The camera image is transmitted live to a screen. As you move through the space, and thus through the imaginary map of Europe, your image is cut up on the screen by knives. Almost ten years before the Yugoslavian Wars, Peter Weibel portrayed Europe with this installation as a bleeding continent, fragmented by nationalism and separatism. In view of current political trends in Europe, the work is once again highly topical.