Outset UK supported Mika Rottenberg's single-channel video installation (sound, colour), 26 minutes, 36 seconds, commissioned by Skulptur Projekte Münster.
For her film installation Cosmic Generator (Tunnel Variant), Mika Rottenberg used a closed-down shop that used to sell Asian products as a ready-made installation set-up. The thematic starting point for her work Cosmic Generator is a tunnel system that establishes a trading connection between various places and actors, among them the Mexican city of Mexicali and Calexico, the Californian town on the other side of the border fence. Rumour has it that the entrance to the system can be accessed via shops and restaurants in La Chinesca, Mexicali’s Chinatown. In her montage, Rottenberg links footage from the local Golden Dragon Restaurant with a 99 Cents Store in Calexico and an enormous plastic commodities market in Yiwu, China. The Yiwu Market plays a pivotal role in this imaginary network peopled by a group of rather strange characters. With its artificial blaze of colours it seems like a gigantic staged performance in itself.
