076

Arte Útil archive nr:

076

Initiator:

Maurizio Cattelan

Location:

Austria

Category:

scientific, environment

Users:

Museum guards, public

Maintained by:

Wiener Secession

Certification:

prototype

Duration:

1997

Maurizio Cattelan
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Dynamo Secession

Description:

Inside the Wienner Secession gallery, a system of bicycles generated energy. Two of its attendants pedaling on bicycles propped on trestles, generated the energy to turn on the bulbs in several of the rooms of the gallery.

Goals:

To generate electricity in the galleries and transform the relationship between the artist, attendants and artworks within the exhibition.

Beneficial Outcomes:

Several rooms of the gallery were powered by the bicycles.

Images: