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		Stock Exchange A video performance by Sisley Xhafa, 3 min (Kosovo/Italy) 2000 Sisley Xhafa's video Stock Exchange consists of the footage of the artist's performance at the Ljubljana train station a day before the opening of Manifesta 3. The artist, dressed in a conservative business suit, gave out information on arrival and departure of trains to passengers and passers-by, waving and yelling like brokers at a stock exchange do. Creating a surreal situation which implicitly refers to the changes caused by the massive, often illegal migrations to the West, this work accumulates a surplus of meaning that makes understanding impossible, using as a sort of metaphor for misunderstanding, one way of speaking in a totally different context. Sisley Xhafa was born in Peja (Kosovo) in 1970. He lives and works in Pisa and Bologna. Selected Exhibitions include 1994 Spazio Tempo, Florence; 1996 Rotte metropolitane, Florence;1997 2 Premio Trevi Flash Art Museum; GAME, Gallery of Modern Art, Bologna;1998 Jelly Bits, Bologna; Welcome, Citta Sant'Angelo, (Italy);1999 Placentia Arte, Piacenza; Atlante, MACS, Sassari.	select an artist Ursula Biemann Songül Boyraz/Peter Höll   > view Loulou Cherinet Pier Paolo Coro Gustav Deutsch/Mostafa Tabbou Dias & Riedweg drive-by-shooting/tallstoreez productionz Rainer Ganahl Heidrun Holzfeind   > view Ruth Kaaserer KanalB Kinga Kielczynska Klub Zwei Jeroen Kooijmans Micah Magee Tanja Nelleman Poulsen Diane Nerwen Jenny Perlin Marco Poloni   > view Lisl Ponger Walid Ra'ad Goran Radovanovic Oliver Ressler/Martin Krenn Alex Rivera   > view Andrea Staka Hito Steyerl Susanne Winterling Sisley Xhafa
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