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Tour de fence is the answer to your real needs. while the internet promised to level out all barriers, tour de fence enables you to surmount the fences out there that people erect to obstruct your way every day. from wire netting to rustic fence, from steel door to close security system, tour de fence offers you the necessary know-how for unhampered movement. tour de fence is the direct way.
Learn offroad mobility within high security architecture. Cross over stretches of land in the right direction. Penetrate the underground area of your city. Tour de fence puts an end to the relocation of your movements into virtual space. (…)
Tour de fence acknowledges fence as metaphor for private property. Fence as a supposedly temporary, often mobile barrier performing functions of inclusion and exclusion, entrapment and guided freedom, decoration, safety, user boundary, protection from hazard, flow control, visual screening and user separation. Fence is a permeable filter system defining permitted use and users. Light, wind, insects, water, plants and sound pass unhindered while high order life forms such as humans, fish, cattle and cars are engaged:
Development of fence.
Up to now the vertical has generally been private while the horizontal public. Increasingly, vertical fences are being rotated to the horizontal and enlarged over large areas of land, as all use and users are embraced in total control.
Tour de fence recognises the transformation of framed freedom into restricted open-range roaming; the re-alignment of unknown possibilities into known repeatables. users are permitted to skate across flattened surface of fence, but not to pass through – the fence is everywhere.
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Source: Tour de fence catalogue.
Credits
The booklet is published as part of the workshop ,,tour de fence" held by heath bunting and kayle brandon in february 2003 at kUnstlerhaus bethanien in cooperation with the transmediale 2003.
Published by the media arts lab at kUnstlerhaus bethanien www.media-arts-lab.org.
Edited by gerrit gohlke.
Artist statement by heath bunting and kayle brandon.
Text by gerrit gohlke.
Graphic design by sudost typografik berlin, matthias gerber and svend wennick.
Printed by druckerei steffen friedland.
Translations by tucinda rennison.
This publication has been made possible in part by schering kunstverein, bertin.
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