FURKART1983624James Lee ByarsA Drop of Black Perfume19032,429Furkablick HotelMarc Hostettler603

Originated and edited by Thomas Rodriguez, Furkart ephemera brings together the communications material issued by the Neuchtel gallerist Marc Hostettler, initiator of the Furkart project. Postcards, press releases, programmes, work files: everything is printed actual size and a chronological approach provides access to all the resultant artworks and all those who took part.

Things began on 24 June 1983 with James Lee Byars performance A Drop of Black Perfume. Between then and 1996 Marc Hostettler invited no fewer than 60 artists to the Furkablick Hotel, built in 1903 and situated 2,429 metres up at the top of Switzerlands Furka Pass. For the three summer months of each year the hotel and its surroundings became a veritable art laboratory, where permanent and ephemeral works were produced specifically fo