AVANTGARDE DATING is an experimental dating service investigating issues associated with contemporary relationships.
Launched via WOOLOO.org and the website AvantGardeDating.com, the project aims to examining stereotypes of partnering in the increasingly common landscape of online, long-distance matchmaking.
From April to August 2007, AVANT-GARDE DATING has been receiving applications from individuals around the world wanting to be matched in new and innovative couples.
ALL of these applicants have now receive a match from the Dating Board - consisting of curators and artists Tanja Ostojic, Raul Zamudio and Karen D. Peters in collaboration with Wooloo Productions.
Out of everyone matched, three outstanding "couples" have additionally been invited for a 1-week exhibition at New Life Shop in Berlin to further explore the concept of human partnering. Each selected artist has traveled to Berlin, met their partner, and then lived together for one week in the gallery space.
On display in the gallery space for one week, the artists went on to explore the mechanisms of a relationship begun in the presentational environment of the internet.
Each couple were given the gallery keys, a bed, as well as a video camera.
Felis Stella & Sergio Zevallos - Sep. 13th to Sep. 19th, 2007
Tanya Ury & Laurel Jay Carpenter - Sep. 27th to Oct. 3rd, 2007
ROXANNE & The Thom - Oct. 4th to Oct. 10th, 2007
The exhibitions were open for visitors between 12-6 PM from Tuesday to Saturday during the period– as well as any other time the performing artists saw fit.
New Life Shop is located at Choriner Str. 85 in Berlin-Mitte (10119). A five-minute walk from Rosenthaler Platz U-bahn (U8).