Peter Fischei and David Weiss were an artistic duo that had been collaborating since 1979, working with a variety of mediums - film and photography, art books, sculptures and multimedia installations. Their work adapted objects and situations from everyday life and placed them in an artistic context - often using humour and irony.
The Equilibres (1984-1987)
The photographs are a series of images of household objects arranged to form carefully balanced assemblages. The set-ups were eventually incorporated into the very celebrated film The Way Things Go (1986-1987), a thirty-minute lasting chain reaction of an assortment of objects and components reacting in a domino-like effect. The film's humour lies in the deliberate misuse of these objects, they are performing roles outside their normal function.
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