Adam Dade and Sonya Hanney

This catalogue was published alongside the video Stacked Hotel Room by Adam Dade and Sonya Hanney exhibited at Ikon from 20 November 2002 – 26 January 2003. As well as a series of stills from the Stacked Hotel Room No. 10 video – filmed in the Edgbaston Palace Hotel in 2002 for the Ikon exhibition – this publication also includes photographs from Dade and Hanney’s nine previous Stacked Hotel Room works, in locations as diverse as Victoria, Australia and Venice, Italy.

Each of these ten versions of Stacked Hotel Room has had the same parameters. The artists check into a given hotel. They familiarise themselves with the room. They dismantle the room without being discovered and without causing damage to its contents. They arrange the contents into a stack formation of some kind. They take a photograph of it and latterly have also videoed the process. Then they reassemble the room and everything is put back in its rightful place.

Included in the catalogue are photographs of the nine Stacked Hotel Room projects that preceded the Birmingham version – reaching back to the very first Stacked Hotel Room, in Greece in 1998, lists of items found in each room during each stacking process, biographies of the artists and video stills from several of the works.