On eight successive evenings, beginning at 10 p.m. on June 11, 2004,
three-hour programs of xenon light projections will be held at outdoor sites in Bregenz and five further locations in Vorarlberg.

Since 1996, Holzer has thrown scrolling texts of monumental scale onto architecture and landscape using high powered projectors fitted with xenon lamps that run 185 mm film. “Seen and absorbed rather than read,” much like advertising and public announcements, in the view of critic Peter Schjeldahl, Holzer’s xenon venues have included the Spanish Steps in Rome, the Louvre in Paris, the National Gallery in Berlin, and the undeveloped landscape surrounding Rio de Janeiro. For her Bregenz project, Holzer has chosen the glass façade of the Kunsthaus for the inaugural evening of the show. Among other selected venues on succeeding nights are Schattenburg Castle in Feldkirch, the dam of the Vermunt Reservoir, and the Kanisfluh Palisades. Text is taken from government documents and Henri Cole’s poem fromthe exhibition as well as from the artist’s writing. At some sites, including Vermunt Reservoir, a special largeformat film will be shown.