Little Sun – a solar solution. Produced by Wolf Gebhardt for Deutsche Welle, Eco@Africa 2016
#OlafurVersailles
Artist Alvaro Urbano, former participant at Institut für Raumexperimente:
My Boy, with Such Boots we may Hope to Travel Far
In several locations in Tirolo and on the Tiroler Steig reaching Merano, Alvaro Urbano has placed a series of 15 concrete sculptures in the shape of the rune symbols of the cryptogram of Jules Verne’s famous book Journey to the Center of the Earth. During the spring of 1863, Professor Otto Lidenbrock, the main character of the novel – who believes in the existence of volcanic tubes that connect to the centre of the Earth – discovers a mysterious manuscript entirely written in runic alphabet, which offers an important key to unveil the path to the centre of the Earth. Considering how important the runes are as a pre-historical relict in the area of Tirolo, an interesting interchange between fiction and reality emerges. The sculptures are scattered along the path that leads from Merano to Tirolo, and in different locations of the village, as the main park and the market square. Visitors and passers-by will discover the sculptures while walking, becoming, almost by chance, the characters of Jules Verne’s famous novel. The sculptures are made in concrete and other local stone material. Moss will slowly grow on them.
Alvaro Urbano is a former participant at Institut für Raumexperimente.
Elise Eeraerts, former participant at Institut für Raumexperimente: Fire Pit (Blocks)
The video fire pit (blocks) by Elise Eeraerts shows the firing process of blocks through the traditional method of a fire pit. A hole is dug, filled with sawdust and within it the objects are placed to be fired during the course of a night. During the firing process a humming/singing performance took place around midnight, performig artists are Jeremias Holliger and Christian Holliger. The live sound recording of this performative ritualistic act is included in the sound sequence of the video and produced by Annelien van Heymbeeck.
Most recent works by Elise Eeraerts that reflect the process of brick production tested and realized by the artist during the last months in Senegal are currently shown in the context of the exibition Our Mathematical World at Sint-Lukasgalerie, Brussels.
Elise Eeraerts is a former participant at Institut für Raumexperimente.
www.elise-eeraerts.be
Check out more projects: www.raumexperimente.net
Studio Olafur Eliasson: The Kitchen
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Green light an artistic workshop and learning platform at TBA21, Vienna
Tomorrow: Olafur will be drawing on Moon together with visitors at Louisiana Museum, Denmark
When you buy a Green light, you co-finance a shared learning platform including seminars, German classes, communal cooking and workshops for refugees in Vienna
Do you agree? Wolfgang Tillmans made a series of posters for you to share or print out and hang around town
From Unspoken Spaces - Olafur Eliasson
I'm of the opinion that central perspective - the traditional Western model for organizing objects within our visible field has created a kind of blindness, a generalized way of seeing, an ocular numbness, if you will. It creates more disembodied eye than seeing body. I remember frequently discussing the idea of reversing central perspective at the time I was making The blind pavilion, proposing a double perspective, where the vanishing point would be in my eyes rather than on my horizon.
#UnspokenSpaces The blind pavilion, 2003, Pfaueninsel, Berlin
Olafur Eliasson Versailles, 7 June – 30 October
Concert, 2013, a film by Amy Paterson
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Thank you for making rainy days purple!
Raul Walch developed Azimut, a series of “rescue kites” together with children and adults at the Greek border. Click on image for more
The title “Azimut” comes from the Arabic word “azimuth” and can be described as “paths”. In astronomy, it is the angle between the meridian plane and vertical plane defining the height of a star. Whether interpreted as a path, as an arch or as a bridge, “Azimut” describes connections that Raul Walch introduces in the context of his exhibition at Kunstverein Arnsberg.
Raul Walch developed and tested series of “rescue kites” together with children and adults at the Greek border. His rescue kites are a type of flying lighthouses and can serve as solar reflectors, as a marker to attract attention of coast guards and be used to locate and rescue a shipwrecked person. The materials are found on site in the camps and their surroundings: the PVC of boats, tent poles, tent fabrics, and the reflectors of lifejackets. The azimut rescue kites fly with the wind, across the borders, the fences and the barbed wire, thus “Azimut” signals hope of freedom.
