The Life Exchange ritual begins on the day of Halloween (Oct. 31st) and runs for one full week until Nov. 6th 2007. For this period Wooloo Productions will be living with Ms. Weber in her home at 449 West 24th Street, Apt. #1, New York, NY 10011. Visitors will be able to enter the apartment every day from 12-9 PM by ringing the bell. Once inside, the visitors will be guided through interviews and re-dressing rituals by Wooloo Productions and – if s/he so chooses – the visitor later leave the apartment dressed in another person’s clothes and carrying this person’s keys and life details.

Known from their 2006 project AsylumNYC – in which the group detained 10 non-U.S. artists in the art institution White Box and had them compete for a 3-year visa – Wooloo Productions is once again creating an experimental situation to examine the construction of social reality.

“Where our previous projects have dealt directly with the movement of bodies over national borders, or the status of these bodies within certain borders, the focus of this work is not on change of place, but rather on change of being,” said Martin Rosengaard, member of Wooloo Productions. “Life Exchange is concerned with intimate immigration. This is a piece about trust, how we in post-9-11 society are taught to assume strangers pose a threat until they prove otherwise. It’s about developing means by which to overcome distrust,” he said.