Pirmin Blum
pirminblum@hotmail.com

Untitled, 1999/00
Video installation, 3 monitors, 2 video players, 2 videotapes (VHS NTSC), 30 min, loop, color.
Source: 1 million airbags made by Mercedes Benz
NB - Developed between 1967 - 1992
VHS, PAL, 18:17 min, color

In a room originally designed by Mercedes Benz to measure the efficiency of airbags, I carried out my own experiments. My work refers to the polyvocal nature of space.



Fasangasse 53/7
A-1030 Vienna, Austria
phone: 011 43 1 5972536
e-mail: pirminblum@hotmail.com

Born 1969 in Luzern, CH.

Education
1999 - 2000 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, masterschool Peter Kogler.
1997 - 1999 Ecole Superieure des Beaux-arts de Geneve, Sylvie Defraoui, Claude Sandoz.
1993 - 1997 Freie Hochschule fuer Geisteswissenschaften Goetheanum,
Dornach/Basel.
Studies in pedagogy; teaching assistance at various schools oriented on
remedial-pedagogy.
1990 - 1992 Hoehere Schule fuer Gestaltung, Basel, typography.

Exhibition
1999 Airbag, Geneve, Switzerland.
1992 annual exhibition, Kunsthalle Luzern, Switzerland.