DON'T HASSLE THE HOF, 2008

SpongeBob SquarePants jumping form the hairy leg of David Hasselhof while escaping from the cartoon headhunter 만화 헤드헌터로부터 도주하느라 데이비드 하셀호프의 털북숭이 다리에서 뛰어내리는 스폰지밥, 2008

the duo show '2 million years of art'
S11, Solothurn
Jan. 2008

Robert Filliou proposed "Art's Birthday" in 1963.
He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art.
But one day, on January 17th to be precise, Art was born.
Filliou says it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water.
We changed that to two million years because of the recent discovery of far older humanoid ancestry.
The origin of the theme of this show is two fold, the other being a movie in which Spongebob Squarepants and David Hasselhoff meet.
David Hasselhoff being an icon of the eighties TV series “Knight rider” and starring in the “Baywatch” series in the ninties.
Spongebob gets help from Hasselhoff in his role as a baywatcher, he personally transports Spongebob on his legs to Bikini Bottom, hometown of Spongebob.
During this trajectory Spongebob has to jump from one leg of Hasselhoff onto the other to escape from a headhunter, while Hasselhoff is body-skiing through water. This jump is represented in the installation part around the papier maché island and the blue plastic foot of Hasselhoff surfing through spray water.

The other part of the installation used the Hasselhoff fan slogan as a title: “Don´t Hassel the Hof”.

The name Hasselhoff was divided in single letters and those single letters represented by other slogan´s more or less chosen for their constructiveness and positive attitude to life : “You had me at Hello” 

“Be Brave Be Nice”

“The best small country in the world”

“Beaut, Beauty, Bewdie”

“Yes Way”

“She'll Be Right”

“Not Coming Straight To The Point”

“Seriously Easy Going”

The letters are cut out of green felt, which was underlaid with tin foil. 

The framed letters were positioned on used furniture, which represent mountain scenery, supplementary we installed models of farms, ranges and a gas station.

Hof is the german word for farm.