The Danger Museum, London 2002
The Danger Museum, iniva, London 2002


The “Soft” season brought together a diverse selection of international artist-curated exhibitions and events to the gallery of Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva). It served as an exploration of networking, exchange, mobility, and interaction, and the season presented these activities as viable strategies for contemporary art production. Crucially, Soft aimed to reveal the elastic and fluid nature of visual art.

iniva exhibition layout
Textile exhibition poster by Tokuko Shimizu
inva Agenada, autumn 2002 

The installation for Danger Museums's projects for Soft included an online publishing house, a streaming installation by artist group Motherboard, interviews, a library networking project, museum shop the aRt café by Dream Products Co. and a specially produced DM newsletter.  


Within this framework Danger Museum presented four separate projects across four weeks:

Week 1 (4–6 September 2002): Alex Villar – Upward Mobility, a film shot in New York and London, exploring the relationship between architectural space and the body.
Filming Upward Mobility with Alex Villar, London 2002
Alex Villar, Upward Mobility, video installation


Week 2 (11–13 September 2002): Kyong Fa Che – a flea-market-style account of traveling in Singapore. Plus: The Artists’ Village, a Singapore-based art collective, presents recent projects.
Kyongfa Che installation details
Kyonfa Che, installation view


Week 3 (18–20 September 2002): Matze Schmidt & Sebastian Stegner – real.-Mapping, an ongoing research project that uses the space to create a global map of social life.


Matze Schmidt & Sebastian Stegner 


Week 4: 25th September - 27th September 2002 Re-analysing the Danger Museum. 
DM Newsletters, downloadble publications 


DM Newsletter #13 Report#1: Alex Villar with DM at inIVA, London 4.-6. 09.02
DM Newsletter #14 featuring: Print your own postcards: “Singaporeans” by Nicola Meitzner (curated by Kyong Fa Che), 2002
Diego Ferrari
Diego Ferrari photographing Alex Villar, London 2002
DM Newletter #17, Diego Ferrari poster, 2002


Motherboard: Mirage
A particepatory installation throughout Danger Museum’s project at iniva: a videoprojection of the gallery wall, streamed onto the internet and projected back onto the gallery wall in a continous, video mirror-within-mirror loop.