Mouse Palace
Video, 2010
For the project a real apartment was rebuilt as a 1:10 scale model from edible materials for the use of mice. The rodents had hardly arrived when they began nibbling away at their lodgings. The hallmark of Harald Hund and Paul Horn’s films is the gleeful, ironical way they reduce our ideas of space and our notions of normalcy to absurdity. (Genoveva Rückert)
“Mouse Palace” is one of the projects in our “Living Space” series which includes “Tomato-heads”, “Dropping Furniture” and the still unfinished “Apnea”. The whole series portrays human existence in absurd conditions. In “Mouse Palace”, it is mice who take the place of men.
Artists' Bios:
Harald Hund - videoartist, participated in various exhibitions and international short film festivals. Studied New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Peter Kogler, at the University of Applied Arts with Isabelle Graw and in the Open Class.
Paul Horn - artist and filmmaker. Lives and works in Vienna. Studied at Rhode Island School of Design, USA and at the Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna (with Maria Lassnig and A. Manthey). Teaches at the University of Arts, Linz / Upper Austria.