Intra Extra (circulus vitiosus) deals with repetitive structures, plays with the space between inside and outside, private and public, the uninterrupted circling of a place, with going around in circles. The performance is repeated every year – components such as location, duration, type of locomotion, and kind of termination of the performance may vary. The performance is recorded with a video camera from within the circled space. Before Vienna and Neunkirchen in 2010, Intra Extra was realized by the artists Moritz Majce and Herwig Kopp in Vienna (2004, 2005), in Paris (2006), in Berlin (2007), in London (2008), and in Chicago (2009).
In 2009/10 Intra Extra was presented under the title Foreclosure, a word that since the worldwide economic crisis has been used primarily in connection with the forced sale of property in the meaning of “execution” or “seizure” but may be also be found as a translation of the psychoanalytical concept “Verwerfung,” which describes a specific form of defence mechanism in the field of psychoses. The first part of the performance took place on 10 December 2009 in Chicago, a city severely hit by the housing crisis. Entire rows of houses had been abandoned, countless buildings were facing foreclosure, and vacant homes determined the appearance of many neighborhoods. In the second part, performed in Vienna (May 21, 2010) and Neunkirchen (May 22, 2010), the work was presented as a repetition of the performance in Chicago by the public. Visitors got into a waiting car from whose back seat they could watch the video of the repetition performance from Chicago while going around in a traffic circle. It was up to the participants how long they wanted to stay in the car.