Appearing Rooms
2004Materials: Water, wood, iron grating, jets, electrical pumps, computer controller
Dimensions: 7 × 2,3 × 7 m
Editions: 3 + 2 a. p.
Courtesy: Johann König, Berlin
Exhibition: Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 2006
Appearing Rooms, Villa Manin, Torino, IT, 2004
Tanz im August, Siemens Arts Program, Berlin, D, 2005
Editions: 3 + 2 a. p.
The work is a programmed water pavilion that comes across as a labyrinth made out of four outer water walls in the shape of a square which is sub-divided into smaller spaces by four independent walls within the structure. The 2,30-metre-high water walls randomly rise and fall, defining all possible right-angled configurations of the space in sequences of ten seconds before changing shape and appearance. The visitor is allowed to move within the structure from space to space, finding himself in differently shaped spaces inside, or suddenly on the outside, of the pavilion without any possibility to control or govern the confinement/exclusion.
