The glass cases hanging from the celling recall the terrariums in a department of palaeontology. Connected to one another by cables and tubes, it seems as if the objects have been caught in the strangling hold of creeping vines which mutated long ago. This impression is intensified by the strange, moving beings, assembled from diverse findings made by someone who has a nose for metallurgy. And the primeval-looking plants, which have been made from the same materials, cause the installation to spread even more rampantly throughout the room. The artists have structured their archaic biotope in three parts: architecture, organisms and flora. Even the title of the entire work, "Menagerie", makes reference to a zoological field: the animal compound. This is the function of the glass- enclosed compartments, and hence both the hesitant look from the inside to the outside as well as the observant look from the outside into the inside are absolutely transparent. In the interior, diverse organisms exist by means of life-support systems that can be monitored, such as air pressure, electricity and controls for programming and storing. The strange anatomy correlates to the limited demands which are made on a basic skeleton and perceptual extremities. In this isolated world, beings - such as "Monokulus-A", "Mosquito pneumatic" or "Tripod" - orient themselves via optical and acoustic sensors, which allow them a minimum of movements and communicative gestures. Yet the specimens which seem to be most despairingly at the mercy of their limitedness are those which are equipped, like a Cyclops, with the eye of the smallest video camera. Although, blessed with this extra level of perception, they are caught even deeper in the labyrinth of their illusive world which consists of subjective views and video feedback. Rampant plant growths - named "Hydrotranspiris" or "Cortistilis tympanum" and which represent flora which grows to enclose architecture - resemble mimosas and are threatening nonetheless. Seemingly simpler in their sensoria and more limited in their reactions, they develop just as unexpected dynamic forces and yet these tend to manifest themselves to the visitor as a gesture of refusal or denial. This cabled world, this agile and exciting environment, triggers visions• on the divergent phenomena. Kinetic objects, glass construction, video system, diverse sensors and interfaces, computer, compressor