No ghost just a Shell

No Ghost Just a Shell, a project around the virtual figure AnnLee on which 16 artists have worked. AnnLee is an 'Avatar', a virtual character originally designed for computer games. She was made in Japan for the Manga animated film industry. She was intended to be a third-rate character, one with few personality traits, designed to lead a brief life. In 1999 the French artists Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno bought the rights to her, gave her a name and initiated the project No Ghost Just a Shell. The plan was to fill the empty 'entity' AnnLee with stories and ideas, and to give her an identity and a life of her own. Huyghe and Parreno thought of a way of making animated films with her relatively cheaply and have offered AnnLee to other artists. The commission was: use AnnLee in your own work and at the same time contribute with us to her history. Bild- und Textbeiträge von: Henry Barande, Angele Bulloch/Imke Wagener, Francois Curlet, Lily Fleury, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Pierre Joseph/ Mehdi Belhaj-Kacem, M/M Paris (Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag), Melik Ohanian, Philippe Parreno, Richard Philips, Joe Scanlan, Rikrit Tiravanija, Anna Lena Vaney, Maurizio Lazzarato, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Israel Rosenfield, Maurice Pianzola, Jan Verwoert, Kathryn Davis, Jean-Claude Ameisen, Luc Saucier