Helge Meyer
Born in Woltwiesche, Germany, in 1969.
Curriculum Vitae

Education:
school education: examination at german secondary school 1990

Civil service:
October 1990 – January 1992

University Studies:
October 1992 – October 1993 teacher for primary school University of Hildesheim
October 1993 – October 1994 Fine arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Academy of Fine arts), Braunschweig
October 1994 – October1999 Kulturwissenschaften + Ästhetische Kommunikation (Cultural studies) University of Hildesheim
End of studies: Diploma 1999
Note: 1,0

Professional Activities:
1992 assistant of director at the Wallgrabentheater, Freiburg
1995 Community work with young people in the „Badehaus“, Ilsede/Ölsburg
1997 free journalist at the newspaper Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung
1998 guest work at the Performance Art archive „Die Schwarze Lade (The Black Kit)" from Boris Nieslony, Köln

Other activities:
1988 - 1993 theatre in school and at free theatres
since 1993 works as performer and multi-media artist
1996 - 1997 director of a free performance art group for young people
since 1996 organiser and curator of exhibitions (photography/performance)
since 1998 research and theoretical work on performance (f.e. edition of material for the issue „Aktionskunst“ (action art) of the magazine „Kunst + Unterricht“ (art and teaching)
since 1998 Performances, lectures and workshops as System HM2T (zusammen mit Marco Teubner) - detailed information: Curriculum Vitae of Performance-Art-group System HM2T
since 2000 Start of the collaboration with Performance Art group Black Market International (Expo Hanover, german pavillon; Hildesheim at the transeuropa 2000 theatrefestival)
since 2000 education for teachers in Performance Art
since 2002 work on the Phd-thesis in Kunstwissenschaft (art science) „Handeln und Leiden - Schmerz als Bild in der Performance Art“ (acting and suffering - pain as an image in performance art) at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart (Academy of Fine Arts)
2003 research grant from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Society) in Switzerland, Canada and Great Britain
since 2004 writer for "Inter" - Art Magazine in Quebec City, Canada and other international magazines

Grants:
2005
Auswärtiges Amt/Generalkonsulat Hermannstadt
Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur Niedersachsen
Goethe Institute Glasgow
2004
Ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)
2003
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Agency) Research Grant Helge Meyer
Ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)
2002
Goethe Institute Manila
2001
Bayerische Staatskanzlei (Ministry of Bavaria)
Außenministerium (Ministry for Foreign Affairs Germany)
Goethe Institute St. Petersburg
Ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)

Publications:
- „Vierte internationale Performance-Begegnung in Yucatan, Mexico“, Oktober 2005
>> online publication
- „La douleur et l´art de la performance“, in: Inter ART ACTUEL, Quebec, numéro 91, September 2005, p.47-49
- „Performance Art. Untersuchung eines Zustands“, in: Wann ist die Kunst? Prozess, Moment, Gültigkeit, Thomas Kaestle (Hrsg.), Kerber Verlag: Bielefeld Mai 2005, p.78-81
- „Der Bildbegriff in der Performance Art“, kunststoff - Zeitschrift für Kunst und Wissenschaft, März 2005
>> online publication
- Rezension: “Francesca Alfano Miglietti: Extreme Bodies. The Use and Abuse of the Body in Art”, Dezember 2004
>> online publication
- "Rezension des 4. Performancefestivals in Odense", November 2004
>> online publication
- "La douleur et l’art de la performance", Bloc Notes, Art Actuel/Actualite Rhone-Alpes, July 2004
- "Material oder Partner - Das Tier in der Performance Art", in: kunsttexte.de - Fachzeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte im Netz, May 2004 (online-publication)
- "Transformation of duration and time", INTER ART ACTUEL [magazine], Quebec, numéro 86, March 2004, Canada, p.20-21
- "Pain as an image in Performance Art", in: Catalogue of 4. International Performancefestival in Odense, Denmark August 2003, p.4-7
- "Duo-Performance. A Documentation of the First Ilseder Performance Evening" edited of ideen.werk (Helge Meyer and Marco Teubner); September 2002
- "Performance and Desorientation" in "Time Space Movement", Catalogue of festival, Akademia Non Grata, Estonia 2001
- "The Aozora Art Project - Hospitality and Knowledge" in: Materials to Aozora Art Project, Koshoku City, Japan 2001
- "Performance Art und Körperbild - Eine Studie zur Avantgarde-Kunst der Gegenwart"
- Diplomarbeit (Diploma Thesis), University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim 1999
- "Der Körper als Werkzeug"(Body as tool) in: "Aktionskunst" (Action Art) (Themenheft), Kunst und Unterricht Nr.225, September 1998, Friedrich Verlag, Velber 1998
- Postcard edition (8 Postcards) of Performances of System HM2T

lectures & workshops:
2006
workshop: “Body, Image and the Other”, 27.11. - 02.12.2006, (together with Alexander Del Re and Jamie McMurry), Universidad Vina del Mar, Valparaiso, Chile
lecture: „Images of pain and dying – Performance Art and death”, 27.10.2006, Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory”, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, USA
lecture and discussion: „Schmerz als Bild in der Performance Art“, 11.09.2006, Performer Stammtisch, Berlin, Germany (together with Florian Feigl and Noah Holtwiesche)
workshop with Jamie McMurry (USA), 7./8.04.2006, Satu Kali - First International Performance Art Symposion, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
workshop: “body, image and the other“, 25./26.03.2006, with Jamie McMurry (USA) and Alexander Del Re (Chile), Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany
2005
workshop: „Dem extremen Moment Dauer verleihen“, 10./11.06.2005, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
lecture, „Die Kunst des Handelns - Ein Zustandsbericht über die Performance Art und ihre historischen Wurzeln“, 09.06.2005, Helge Meyer, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Germany
lecture, „Pain and Performance Art“, 23.04.2005, Helge Meyer, Congress “Representation of pain”, University College Cork, Irland
lecture, „System HM2T and Black Market International“, 06.04.2005, Helge Meyer, School of the Museum of the Fine Arts, Boston, USA
lecture, „Collaboration in Performance“, 05.04.2005, Helge Meyer, School of the Museum of the Fine Arts, Boston, USA
lecture, „Pain and Performance Art“, 02.04.2005, Helge Meyer, Performance Studies International Conference “Becoming Uncomfortable”, Brown University, Providence, USA
2004
lecture, "pain and performance art", 25.11.2004, Helge Meyer, Congress "Kunstgeschichtliche Interpretation und bildwissenschaftliche Systematik" University of Magdeburg, Germany
lecture and workshop, 7-10.08.2004, Helge Meyer, Summer University Rinteln, Germany
lecture, "the image of pain in performance art", 30.03.04, Helge Meyer, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
lecture, "Duo-work", 22.01.04, System HM2T, Casadelcultura, Chocopo4, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
2003
lecture, " Duo-work" 27.11.2003 System HM2T, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Luzern im Rahmen der Internationalen Performance Tage Willisau, Switzerland
Lecture," Duo-work" 24.09.2003 System HM2T (Marco Teubner solo), "Probing into the distance", CAFKA 03, Kitchener, Canada
Lecture "Pain and performance art", 12.09.2003 (Solo Helge Meyer), 4th International Performance Art Festival Odense, Denmark
2002
Workshop „From an image to an action“, 5.09.2002 (Solo Helge Meyer) in Rencontre internationale d`art performance de Quebec 2002 in Quebec City, Canada
Workshop for adults and students, 23.06.2002, Seminarrooms of the Komed, (Festival: Erster Ilseder Performanceabend), Ilsede, Germany
Lecture" The history of performance art - what is going on now?", 21.06.2002, Seminarrooms of the Komed, (Festival: Erster Ilseder Performanceabend), Ilsede, Germany
Lecture, 22.02.2002, College of Fine Arts, University of the East, Caloocan City, Philippines
2001
Performance Workshop, 15.-16.10.2001, Kulturpalast, St. Petersburg, Russia
Lecture with slide-show about the history of performance art, 13.10.2001, museum of arctic and antarctic, St. Petersburg, Russia
Performance Workshop, 22.7.2001, Kirakuboo, Koshoku City, Japan
Artist Talk, 21.7.2001, at the japanese-german society in Nagano, Japan
Performance Workshop for students, 20.7.2001, Kirakuboo, Koshoku City, Japan
Lecture with slide-show about the history of performance art, 19.7.2001, Koshoku Culture Hall, Koshoku City, Japan

Performances with System HM2T (Helge Meyer / Marco Teubner), Black Market International and solo:
Performances 2007
„Black Market International“ , Residency of 5 days, 7.02.07 – 11.02.07, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Schottland
Performances 2006
“You can run, but you can´t hide”, 25.11.2006, Helge Meyer solo, International Workshop of Performance Art “Body, Image and the Other”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, Chile
“Burst”, 10.11.2006, Helge Meyer solo, (Re) fusing self, Initiation International 2, Singapur
“Trading Sorrow”, 16.09.2006, Helge Meyer solo, Live Action Gothenburg, Sweden
„Meeting“, 15.09.2006, with Alastair MacLennan, Live Action Gothenburg, Sweden
“Focus: Senses 1”, 16.06.2006, System HM2T, “Momentum”, Brussels, Belgium
„Gewichtung 2“, 10.06.2006, Helge Meyer solo, Kulturtag Gepardshagen, Germany
“Black Market International meeting”, 23.04.2006, Black Market International, Trouble #2, Brussels, Belgium
“Taschlich 2”, 11.04.2006, (Helge Meyer solo), Future of Imagination 3, Singapore
„Meeting“, 07.04.2006, with Boris Nieslony, Satu Kali, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
“Dissection”, 24.03.2006, (Helge Meyer solo), Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany
“Hand to Hand in Valencia”, 25.02.2006, (Helge Meyer solo), 4th International Performance Encounter at the IVAM, Valencia, Spain
“Slits 2: Pain is in the eye of the beholder”, 25.02.2006 (DVD System HM2T with an additional Installation of Victoria Singh), Western Front Performance Art, Vancouver, Canada
Performances 2005
“Black Market International meeting“, 12.12.2005, L´Usine, Geneva, Switzerland
“Black Market International meeting ”, 10.12.2005, Bone 8, Schlachthaus Theater, Bern, Switzerland
„Hände“, 07.12.2005, System HM2T, Bone 8, Schlachthaus Theater, Bern, Switzerland
“Black Market International meeting”, 06.12.2005, Bone 8, Schlachthaus Theater, Bern, Switzerland
„Hand to Hand in Sf. Gheorghe“, 01.10.2005, Helge Meyer solo, Eruptio3, Sf. Gheorghe, Romania
“Gewichtung”, 10.09.2005, System HM2T, Paradiesgärten, Vogelfrei 6, Darmstadt, Germany
“Taschlich”, 04.09.2005, Helge Meyer solo, 4to Encuentro Internacional Performance in Yucatan, Chelem, Mexico
„Hand to hand in Merida“, 02.09.2005, Helge Meyer solo, 4to Encuentro Internacional Performance in Yucatan, Merida, Mexico
“Gewichtung – Handlung 1”, 19.07.05, Helge Meyer and Marie Pape, Sommeruniversität Rinteln, Rinteln, Germany
“Black Market International meeting”,16.07.05, Black Market, 13.Performance Art Konferenz, Tesla, Berlin, Germany
“Black Market International meeting”, 15.07.05, Black Market, 13.Performance Art Konferenz, Tesla, Berlin, Germany
“Black Market International meeting”, 12.07.05, Black Market (Organisation Ideenstiftungsverein/Helge Meyer), Gebläsehalle Ilsede, Germany
“Hand to Hand in Providence”, 01.04.2005, Helge Meyer solo, Performance Studies International Conference “Becoming Uncomfortable”, Brown University, Providence, USA
“Black Market International meeting”, 13.02.2005, Black Market, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Performances 2004
"21 grammes part 5", 4.12.2004, Performance System HM2T, Bone 7, Bern, Switzerland
"21 grammes part 4", 26.11.2004, Performance System HM2T, eBent04, Barcelona, Spain
"21 grammes part 3", 30.10.2004, Performance System HM2T, Traktor - Deutsche Performance, Dresden, Germany
"21 grammes-part 2", 18.09.2004, Performance System HM2T, Rencontre Internationale d ´art performance de Quebec, Galerie Rouje, Quebec City, Canada
"21 grammes-part 1", 16.09.2004, Performance System HM2T, Rencontre Internationale d ´art performance de Quebec, Galerie Sequence, Chicoutimi, Canada
"Musikkörper-Körpermusik", 07.08.2004, Performance System HM2T and Dr. Andreas Hoppe, Rinteln, Germany
"Le grand coup", 29.07. and 30.07.04, (Collective work), Deranger espace 4, Magdalen Islands, Canada
"21 gram for heaven", 15.07.04, (Marco Teubner solo), 3 Encuentro Internacionale de Performance Yucatan, Dzindzantun, Mexico
"Rent an Artist", Boris Nieslony and Helge Meyer, organised by Jekaterina Anzupowa, 26.07.04, School of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, Germany
"Russian Bread", Helge Meyer solo, 24.04.04, "Sperrgebiet" Wünsdorf Waldstadt, Germany
"Hommage - Hand to hand in Boston (a cultural exchange of cloth and more)", 03.04.04, Performance System HM2T (Helge Meyer solo), "Corporeal Heat", Boston, USA
"No es la vida dulce?- Ist das Leben nicht süss?", 21.01.04, Performance System HM2T, "Chocopop4, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Performances 2003
"Arbeit mit vermindertem Wasserdampf", 29.11.2003, Performance System HM2T, "International Performance Art Days 6" Willisau, Switzerland
"Kleine Gesten und andere Handlungen", 4.10.2003, Performance System HM2T, "Do you understand - Festival", Mannheim, Germany
"The German Peepshow", 20.-25.09.2003, Performance System HM2T (Marco Teubner solo), "Probing into the distance", CAFKA 03, Kitchener, Canada
"Gone", 29.08.2003, Performance Helge Meyer with Geneviève Lamontagne, Ilot Fleurie, Quebec City, Canada
"Left", 28.08.2003, Performance Helge Meyer, Gallery Clark, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
" Laid", 21.08.2003, Performance Helge Meyer, Gallery Le Lobe, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
"Eg(g)o" 18.05.2003, Performance System HM2T, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
"The long journey of rice", 16./17.05.2003 (21 hours), Performance System HM2T, Galerie Magnet at LAKARAN 2003" - 3rd Philippine International Performance Art Festival (PIPAF), Manila, Philippines
Performances 2002
„The return“, 8.11.2002, Performance Helge Meyer and Stefanie Pape, Galerie Die Arche in Hameln, Germany
„Balance“, 12.10.2002, Performance System HM2T, 13th Multimedia Art Festival Transart Communications in Nove Zamky, Slovakia
„Short Message“, 27.09.2002, Performance System HM2T, Galerie Buryzone, in Bratislava, Slovakia
„Peepshow 3“, 26.09.2002, Performance System HM2T, A.K.T. 3 -Between Reality and Fiction, in Brno, Czech Republic
„Black Market International meeting“, 12.09.2002, Black Market International Performance, Galerie Clark, Rencontre internationale d’art performance de Quebec 2002 in Montreal, Canada
„Black Market International meeting“, 7.09.2002, Black Market International Performance, Ilot fleurie, Rencontre internationale d`art performance de Quebec 2002 in Quebec City, Canada
„Hand to hand in Canada“, 6.09.2002, Performance Helge Meyer (solo), Rencontre internationale d`art performance de Quebec 2002 in Quebec City, Canada
"Un concerto per il gas", 28.06.2002, Performance System HM2T, Erster Ilseder Performance Abend, Gebläsehalle in Ilsede, Germany
"Exit/NoExit", 22.04.2002, Performance System HM2T, Meeting about performance, Cultural Centre of Schleswig Holstein, Salzau, Germany
"Peepshow 2", 12.04.2002, Performance System HM2T, Stillstand performance evenings, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Köln, Germany
“Hand to hand 2”, 24.02.2002 , performance System HM2T, “Saluhan Pipaf 2002”, Pinto Art Gallery, Antipolo City, Philippines
“Hand to hand1”, 23.02.2002, performance System HM2T, “Saluhan Pipaf 2002”, Donada Art Gallery, Manila, Philippines
“Asian women are free!” 21.02.2002, performance System HM2T and Kaori Haba (Japan), Australian Centre, Manila, Philippines
“Peepshow”, 10.01.2002, performance System HM2T, Cuba-Kulturzentrum, Münster, Germany
Performances 2001
“Black Market International”, 17.11.2001, performance Black Market International, Aree Intermediali e Sinestetiche" Vetrina internazionale del CND, Centro Nazionale Di Drammaturgia Teatro Totale, Rome, Italy
“Newton”, 16.11.2001,performance System HM2T (with Myriam Laplante), Aree Intermediali e Sinestetiche" Vetrina internazionale del CND, Centro Nazionale Di Drammaturgia Teatro Totale, Rome, Italy
“Russian Variation No. 1”, 14.10.2001, performance System HM2T, EXTEMPORE - First Saint-Petersburg Festival of Improvisation, Performance and Contemporary Dance, Museum of Arctic and Antarctic, St. Petersburg, Russia
“A Question of Faith”, 12.10.2001, performance System HM2T, EXTEMPORE, St. Petersburg, Russia
“Selling the Yellow Man”, 16.8.2001, performance System HM2T & Lee Wen (Singapore); Second Open Art Festival, Chengdu, China
“Into a Land of Milk and Honey“, 15.8.2001, performance System HM2T, Second Open Art Festival, Leshan, China
“Clash“, 12.8.2001, performance System HM2T, Second Open Art Festival, Pengshan, China
“Reactions on Artificial Wind”, 28.7.2001 performance System HM2T, Aozora Art Projekt, Koshoku City, Japan
“Flags“, 14.7.2001, performance System HM2T, Aozora Art Project, Koshoku City, Japan
"Earthbarrow", 22.6.2001, performance System HM2T, Arche gallery, Hameln, Germany
"Point of view No.4", 18.6.2001, performance System HM2T, Time Space Movement 2001, International Performance Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Point of view No.3", 17.6.2001, performance System HM2T, Time Space Movement 2001, International Performance Festival, Pedvale, Latvia
"Into water", 17.6.2001, performance System HM2T, Time Space Movement 2001, International Performance Festival, Riga, Latvia
"Point of view No.2", 17.6.2001, performance System HM2T, Time Space Movement 2001, International Performance Festival, Pärnu, Estonia
"Point of view No.1", 16.6.2001, performance System HM2T, Time Space Movement 2001, International Performance Festival, Paide, Estonia
"More valuable than gold No.2", 25.2.2001, performance System HM2T, EXIT Performancefestival, Calble Factory, Helsinki, Finland
"Let the birds fly", 24.2.2001, performance System HM2T, EXIT Performancefestival, Calble Factory, Helsinki, Finland
Performances 2000
Black Market International Meeting, 9.12.2000, Performancefestival Bone 3, Bern, Switzerland
"Pneuma", 7.12.2000 performance System HM2T, Performancefestival Bone 3, Schlachthaus, Bern, Switzerland
Black Market International Meeting, 6.12.2000, Performancefestival Bone 3, Bern, Switzerland
"Encounter", 8.6.2000, a performance-meeting of Black Market International & System HM2T, marketplace, Hildesheim, Germany
"Encounter", 5.6.2000, a performance-meeting of Black Market International & System HM2T, EXPO 2000, german pavillion, Hanover, Germany
Performances 1999
"More valuable than gold No.1", 3.12.1999, performance System HM2T, Theaterhaus Hildesheim, Germany
“Acting twelve times in front of the main entrance”, 11.6.1999, performance No.5 from the performance-series “perform”, University of Hildesheim, Germany
„Story-telling in the catacombs”, 10.6.1999, performance No.4 from the performance-series “perform”, University of Hildesheim, Germany
“Drinking water“, 9.6.1999, performance No.3 from the performance-series “perform”, University of Hildesheim, Germany
“Walking tied together on the entire area”, 8.6.1999, performance No.2 from the performance-series “perform”, University of Hildesheim, Germany
“Walking in the courtyard”, 7.6.1999, performance No.1 from the performance-series “perform”, University of Hildesheim, Germany
1998
setting up of the performance-group System HM2T

Reviews of my works (extract):
"Wo ist mein Traktor?", from Andrea Rook, Dresdener neueste Nachrichten, 1.11.2004, Dresden, Germany
"Der abwesende Traktor", from Bernhard Theilmann, Sächsische Zeitung, 1.11.2004, Dresden, Germany
"TransSylvAnn Art-Gustav Uto and Helge Meyer and Diaspora", Helen Matte and Richard Martel in: Inter Art Actuel, Numero 88, Autumn 2004, Le Lieu, Quebec City, Canada
"Black Market", in: Recontre Internationale d´Art performance de Quebec 2002 (catalogue), Le Lieu, Quebec City, Canada
"Corporeal Heat" (Review of a work in Boston, April 2004), Dirk Adams, Big Red and Shiny, Issue 05
"Performance" von Sylvie Ferre, in: Bloc Notes 208, Art Actuel/Actualite Rhone-Alpes, Fevrier 2003
"A propos de Black Market" from Karen Spencer, in: Esse - Arts and Opinions, Montreal, Edition: printemps 2003
"Actinart 2002" (CD-Rom Catalogue), Transart Communication 2002, Nove Zamky-Budapest, Slovakia - Hungary, 2003
"Counting rice" von Pedro Dumancas and Moro Ocampo, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 2.06.2003, Cultural Section, Manila, Philippines
"Teatro Totale - Una proposta una patrica" from Alfio Petrini, Summer 2003, Rome, Italy
"Planete performance" von Sylvie Cotton, in: Esse - Arts and Opinions, Montreal, edition: printemps 2002
"Performance Duo System HM2T", in: kultur z.b., Hildesheim, edition 05. Juli 2002
"IMAF 2002-4th International Multimedial Art Festival" (Catalogue), MAS Gallery & Multimedial Art Studio, Odzaci, Yugoslavia, October 2002
"Festival Exit", Esse - Arts and Opinions, Montreal, Ausgabe: hiver 2002
"Nur das Plüsch Schwein kanns bezeugen", Westfälische Nachrichten, 12.01.2002
"An die Grenzen und darüber hinaus", Braunschweiger Zeitung, 3.01.2002
"Und so was will in die Europäische Union?", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 29.08.2001
"Exit", Magyar Felöoktatas, Budapest, Ausgabe 5-6, 2001
"Winzige Gesten der Annährung", Der Bund, Bern, 8.12.2000
"Die dunkle Seite der Weltausstellung", Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung, 7.6.2000
"Vom Gehen und Trinken und anderen Alltäglichkeiten", Hildesheimer Zeitung, 14.6.1999

Selected List of Works Published in Websites:
Website of National Review of Live Art in Scotland
Website of Festival “eBent” in Spain
Website of Festival "Time Space Movement" in Estonia
Website of Festival "Exit" in Finland
Website about my work and research of performance art - Performance Art Research
Own Website with Texts, pictures, and articles - System HM2T

Videos:
“Black Market International – Eine Performancebegegnung von 12 Künstlern aus 9 Ländern”, Deutschland, November 2005
"Recontre internationale d`art performance de Quebec 2002 - Solos", Video of Soloperformances, Quebec City 2003
"Recontre internationale d`art performance de Quebec 2002 - Group", Video of Black Market International, Quebec City 2003
"China Moon" from Lee Wen, Japan (Documentation of a Performance tour in China), Tokio 2002
"Time Space Movement", Documentation of the Performance festival in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (several tapes), Tallinn 2001
"Black Market", Documentation of two performances of Black Market International, Frankfurt 2000