DAVID SCHAFER: The Intruder/De Indringer

2004 Edited & mixed by Mark Wheaton at Catasonic, LA English voice over: Josie Roth, Dutch voice over: Erik Grouwstra

Part of the exhibition titled "Futureways: The Middelburg Biennial 2304", Middelburg Holland. Curated by Rita McBride, Glen Rubsamen, and Rutger Wolfsen.

Mounted on the exterior of the 15th century deVleeshal is a large PA speaker-horn that emits in both Dutch and English a short Dutch children's story approximately 10 minutes long. The story is sounded once a day after the 1:15pm bells at a volume that can be heard just out of the public square that the deVleeshal faces. A female voice over from Los Angeles read the English version, and a male Dutch voiceover read the Dutch version. The story is from a book by Piet Prins, a Dutch author, and the story deals with the subject of oppression and ethics during the Reformation within a typical narrative structure. On the interior exhibition space of deVleeshal is two other works. One is a freestanding medium sized sculpture fabricated of small aluminum I-beams that are bolted and riveted together and whose orientation and composition may recall a late modernist formalist style of expression. The third element is a wall-mounted digital C-print whose image is derived from the sculpture itself as it is modeled in a 3D comic book style. The fourth element of the project involves an 18" x 24" poster that uses a double image of the deVleeshal tower. The poster was put up around the town of Middelburg as part of the exhibition.