“Ben [Livne Weitzman] and I exchanged views on what might fit. I was particularly interested in getting something into public spaces, because it’s so often fraught and difficult to show there”

“Rather than soliciting artworks that can be placed anywhere, WAVA proposes that exhibitions remain site-specific and viewers move to the location of artworks, locating them through the app.”

“Hundreds, even thousands of monuments are spread across the entire city of Frankfurt. And yet you have certainly never seen these here before: Detached from their pedestals, a few centimetres above them, the bronze and gold busts of Phillip Saviano, Marlene Garcia-Esperat, Li Wenliang, Kimberly Young-McLear and Aaron Swartz float in the air.”

“All works are […] accessible to view via the WAVA app, which ties into users’ geolocation but does not extract any data, returning a sense of freedom taken by other location tracking apps.”

“Walking by the Chinese Consulate in Frankfurt, most passersby would miss the floating bust of Li Wenliang. Accessed through the WAVA app, four other site-specific monuments augment different locations across Frankfurt. The exhibition DEMO-offers an invigorating way to reimagine public space artistic interventions in our virtually interconnected era.”

“While on the Frankfurt square, I can see the flickering screens that make up Tony Coke's Coke's SM BNGRZ on my mobile phone camera's screen, while the tourists see the city's newly reconstructed historical facades of the city, perhaps almost as simulated, on theirs.”