When we prepared the installation, we saw in a documentary how police and forensic experts are reconstructing shooting incidents: in order to visualize the lines of shots in space, they would use canes and pipes to trace those invisible trajectories.
We decided to do another field trip, this time to the Vienna police department. They were quite suspicious... Why would art students want to know this? Well, we told them, we were doing our diploma on the aesthetics of lines in space...
After showing us the old cane and pipe concept, they would then explain that ballistic experts nowadays use a bi-directional laser to follow shooting trajectories. - Like an inversion of a laser target finder on a gun...
It was quite a strange feeling to go to the polce to find out more about visualization models... and it brought to the front once more a feeling we had had for some time: The strange fascination that we felt for all these structures. We can't deny that we are quite fascinated with all this lines and diagrams. And probably this impressiveness is a big part of how this aesthetically works in a power structure. A bit like how Walter Benjamin describes fascism as the aesthetization of politix...