Description
As a member of the Construction in Process Committee at the International Artists’ Museum in Lodz, Ann was invited to ask another artist to take part in the 10- day event Construction in Process III – back in Lodz 1990. She invited Wolfgang Hainke, and he brought Berndt Eickhorst along as his assistant. They picked Ann up in Berlin in their rented van, which contained four copy machines and 10,000 sheets of paper donated by “Toshiba” in Bremen, as well as a coffee machine, cans of coffee and creamer from the firm "Jacobs”.
At a time when there were no copy shops in the city and all other means of reproduction were too expensive for most Polish citizens, the Copy Shop was a main attraction for the week. The shop was open 24 hours a day, all the copies were free, the only stipulation being that they kept a duplicate copy for every one that a customer made, both for documentation and for the final exhibition of portraits of customers on the walls of the shop.