SUREGARDISM

2009
Diplom Scenography / Media Art, HfG Karlsruhe
Audio Video-Performance / Sculpture

Suprematism was the tendency to grapple with non-representationalism in art, founded in the 1910s among artists such as Kassimir Malevich and Hans Richter. 'Regarder' is the sight that together results in supregardism.

How do we see the world and what role plays cognition in the process. To what extent can rooms be delimited based on this, and thus create atmospheres. The installation build is like a analog camera lens in which the magic happens. The work was presented as a performative sound sculpture. The building it tooks place was set with a stage and a film set. The audience explored the space themselves led by a voice cutted from a godard movie describing objects, colors andour perception of the world.

13.07.2009

A two-story building that was used as a rehearsal stage by the national theatre. Visitors came into the space finding chairs for an audience in front of a seated rehearsal stage. Drinks were served, the people sit on the chairs, an audience is built, it gets quiet, nothing happens, a quarterbacked of an hour goes by. People ask themselvess: Is something going wrong? When will it start? Have we been to early? Sure there's a problem with something? We just have to wait? I like the space. I'm curious. The director is also a DJ. Aha there are chairs on the stage. What do the chairs mean? Must be something deeper. There is also a jacket. After quite a while of imaginative thinking, the audience hears a sound coming from the stairwell, hardly to be understood, after a while a ~65 year old man stands up and goes downstairs. Everyone stays seated. Is he an actor? Strange. Two women stand up from the audience and go downstairs. They don't come back. What is downstairs? Now people get curious, nervous, get up. And gradually the whole audience moves into the basement. On the way downstairs, in the  stairwell, a travel guide describes the landscape, the colors of the rocks, etc ... At the bottom it is gloomy, empty rooms, oppressive, creepy, you can hear a hum from a changing room in which ivy has grown, everything seems deserted for a long time, but is lit up like a movie set. Part of the room looks like a stage, but nowhere is an actor. In addition to one room, there is a technician operating a video installation. Suddenly all the lights go out and a voice begins to speak in a whisper to the audience. A text by Jean Luc Godard. The technician begins to switch the lights on and off, the visitors follow the resulting images projected on a wall. It becomes very quiet. Lights in individual rooms go on and off again and again. The voice speaks of objects, of colors, of questions of perception of the world, while the audience themselves begin to explore the sound space sculpture.