Christiane Erharter kessylux@hotmail.com New York City Medley, 2000 Audio CD, 6:37 min, loop. A sampler with my favorite songs about New York cut-up and newly interpreted. The well-known and popular material is taken from songs dealing with New York City as the main topic in the song lyrics (Pet Shop Boys, Prefab Sprout) or the music which was made in New York City (Le Tigre, Free Kitten, ESG, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five). Cut-up material: The Message / Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five; Bowery Boy / Free Kitten; New York City Girl / Pet Shop Boys; Dance / ESG; My Metrocard / Le Tigre; New York New York / Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five; Hey Manhattan! / Prefab Sprout. Born 1974 in Kufstein/Tyrol, Austria. Education 1994-1998 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria; graduation. Selected Projects and Group Exhibitions 1999 “Freizeit und Ueberleben”, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria. “Heimat. Denken”, Diagonale (Austrian Film Festival), Graz, Austria. 1998 “Parkplatz”, project by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Generali foundation store front window, Vienna, Austria. Various self organized projects. KessyLuxOrganisation, collaboration with Max Freudenschuss, running an independent audiotape label, KessyLuxOrganisation; latest release: Frank Metzger/Oval Demo Tape Austria. CH.I.C. in der Wunderwelt, collaboration with Ina Freudenschuss and Cordula Thym, running a radio show which is kind of a musical fanzine dealing with feminism and popular culture. The program is broadcasted bi-weekly by the free radio (Radio Orange 94.0) in Vienna.