Vier5 139, rue du Faubourg St.Denis 75010 Paris ++33 1 42 05 09 90 contact@vier5.de 1. OUTER GUIDING SYSTEM e) crown caps Crown caps on the street are a sign of our civilization, they indicate where people linger, gather and crowd, and which ways they go or have gone. The crown cap is a simple and direct sign, and in contrast to other “remains” and indications of our daily life, the crown cap is “persistent”. Once thrown to the ground, it can hardly be removed; rusted specimens can therefore even be found when digging in the earth. Due to the daily use of the crown cap and the way it is carelessly disposed of, it becomes an “invisible” guiding system through a city. Especially in the year of the documenta, many of these crown caps will line the ways and point to the direction that people and visitors will take through the city. Some of the crown caps will become buried in the earth and remain in the city for a long time to come. One of these crown caps was freed of its anonymity for documenta 12; it was cast and gilded. It will be given back to the visitors of the show, who also become part of the guiding system, consciously or unconsciously, through their visit. But because of the crown cap, which has now become a gem, as it were, the idea of the exhibition is carried out into the world, spanning a dense network based on this found object from Kassel. a) signs b) containers c) living guiding system d) ceramic hills e) crown caps <

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