The Equator is a 'travel-as-art-as-information' project produced for Documenta X with artists reporting from and performing on the equator in Central Eastern Africa and South East Asia, as well as Øtherwhere. The Equator since then has grown into a large website, where regular users, agents and robots reside. All these virtual beings add content and software to Equator. 'Øtherlands' presents the landscapes build by these artists and many of the visitors to their website. Any user is invited, if not forced, to add content to this site. According to Pocock, the Equator is post-beat, both word-based and performative, a sort of group portrait or diary described by interwoven scenes uploaded by participating artists, extended and interrupted by email messages from web guests. The Equator as metaphor is remapped in motherboard earth's network space as a correspondence between provisional identities. As form, the Equator is a shifting BLOB (Binary Large OBject), existing in a virtual space between architecture (data texture) and film (hypercinema). Its aesthetic is not only apparent (consumable) but relative (participatory). The Equator is about connecting, misconnecting, reconnecting, disconnecting. The Equator is one person in several bodies, and several persons in one body. The Equator is a movie playing not near you but in you.
– Walter v.d. Cruysen
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Together with: Frederick W. Ayer, Fabrizio Gallanti, Mo Diener, Davide Legittimo, Nanne Prauda,
John Zinnser, Walter van der Cruijsen e.v.a.
Philip J. Pocock ° 1954, Ottawa (Canada)
Lives and works in Karlsruhe (Brd)
Florian Wenz ° 1958, Munich (Brd)
Lives and works in Zürich (Switzerland)
Udo Noll ° 1966, Hadamar (Brd)
Lives and works in Cologne (Brd)
Felix. S. Huber ° 1957, Zürich (Switzerland)
Lives and works in Cologne (Brd)
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