Dan Graham

From 1969 to 1978 Graham worked primarily with performance, film and video, focusing, for example, on the synchronization of speech and breathing patterns between the artist and his audience. From 1974, with the installation/performance Present Continuous Past(s), Graham began to use two-way mirror walls in relation to real reflections and time-delayed video projections These works evolved into the socially-based architectural projects such as open-air pavilions, including a Skateboard Pavilion in Stuttgart in 1989 and in the same year The Children's Pavilion (with Jeff Wall), and the Star of David Pavilion (Vienna, 1991-6). All of Graham's projects are democratically rooted in everyday urban life and activity - particularly children's play. His work is thus as valuable to architects and town planners as to the art community. During the 1990s he has been offered major public commissions throughout North America and Europe.