exhibition documentation excerpt with sound by Noiseborder Ensemble, Windsor, Canada
Andrea Sunder-Plassmann and Sigi Torinus

The project was first launched in Australia in 1997 with Anita Kocsis (Australia) at the SCA Gallery in Sydney. The same year we brought browsing beauty to San Francisco, where it was shown at Gallery 16 with new video and a performance. In 1998 we created a very different-looking show in Berlin, Germany (Galerie am Marstall), with the balloons remaining as the main carriers of images, and in Mowscow (TV Gallery Moscow) with Russian text and images we found in and around Moscow. In 1999 the idea of browsing beauty became the basis for "Slushaj! Sasha und der Kosmos" (Galerie Marstall, Berlin Germany)

So far, each show had a different focus in relationship to beauty; Australia was intimacy (inspired by the vast distances geographically), Moscow had nostalgia (this was during the transition of Soviet Union to Russia), San Francisco was magic and pleasure (during the dotcom rise with its oppulence), in Berlin it was the question of identity of a new Berlin after the wall came down, for Canada it is longing and renewal (a country of immigrants, many dreaming of going 'home' one day).