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                                                             it took place in New york in februar / mars 2007  ( PS1 press release )

                                    Emergency Room is an exhibition format by Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel

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ENTRANCE GATE   of the Emergency  Room at PS1 /

The Emergency Room is a physical  room with a room design 
made by Jean de Piépape .In the emergency  room the  exhibition changes daily at 12.30 p.m. with punctuality .
In the emergency room the artist comments what happen today ( last 24 hours ) .
The artists must give their opinions about emergency cases ( no time to loose )
The time is important :  the   artists have  daily deadlines . The artist opinion about today  is important and needed , the artist is a thermometer  and has an important vision to deliver . The Emergency Room is round to encourage  political debate .   12 . 30 is an important  meeting public and medias can witness ,  daily .  The exhibition changes 


the emergency room architect :    ( clik for  high resolution )


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resonnace and public 
: at the passage medias and public witness the rising of new art work of new opinion mass medias comes to source themselves in the emergency room
even if " isoloated in an art institution what is debate in Emergency Room as a global  audience a resonnace .

ABC news

Reuter international

a daily blog is loaded some hours after the passage

Emergency Room is  working on to having a daily  1 minutes slot in the news ( like the printed medias have caricatures ) . Emergency room artist can use poetry for example to comment the news they can also use their visual expertise to point at serious disfunction and  abuse . Beside the content of the subject treated in Emergency Roomthe room experience is the best experience to have

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passage at 12 . 30 artist simultanly deinstaul and install the news art work of today . it is made like  a music mix . The new  installation depending of it s nature takes about 30 minutes . the exhibition has to be ready in the round white cube as soon as possible so the public can experiment finished art works. Emergency Room welcome performance but Emergency Room is not  a work shop it is a finnished edited space . If artist wants to socialize or work after the passage they have a backstage room .

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about 30 minutes after the passage the emergency room is a finished  exhibition


the  Delay Museum
                      
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Beside the emergency rooom there is the delay museum  ( Musée du RETARD )

in the Dealy Museum are show art works that have been in the emergncy room they are shown with a little delay
like one day after  ( or a week after )
the  emergency room is the only contemporary institution  the delay museum is an excroissance .



WEEKLY RUN TRAINING

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In order to create a energic communauty ready to make fast interventions the artist from
Emergency Room are invited daily to run in New York  or train the run is to remeber that awarness muscle is a muscle and as to be train the run is the metaphor of a effort that has to be done

art works
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Jaishri Abichandani
Steven Day
Mike Estabrook
Frank Franzen
Nancy Friedemann
Peter Lind
Mac Premo
Salvador Diaz 
Gail Rothschild 


all art work are registered , artists daily intervieuwed  a furhter work on the
AESTHETICS OF EMERGENCY  is done . some artist are abstact painter  . artist come from different practise when they join emergency room they change