Stephan Blumenschein
The practice of artist Stephan Blumenschein looks at the histories, ideologies and fantasies surrounding institutional spaces. He does so by thinking through the relations of spaces/rooms within buildings as well as their outside. (Re)performing social hierarchies constellations of spaces form the framework for where and how (in)visibility and participation is produced and granted to whom.
That echo, once we have left
Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw, PL 08.1017.11.2018
Storage spaces are adjoining the exhibition space at ACF Warsaw. Two very different kind of spaces, the exhibition space & the storage space.
These two spaces – materialization of their concepts and hosting diverse forms of labour - are correlated via doors, which operate like conjunctions. Doors as the location of the drama of knowledge and belonging. Moreover, doors act like filters of information, air, energies, visibilities and sounds.
What is to be heard? And: What can you hear?
Following a score the motors open and close slowly and gently: a ghostly composition of subtle movements is fabricated, accompanied by low volume mid and high pitch frequencies produced by the motors as they push and pull.
One of the two linear accelerator installed on the inside of the storage space opening the door into the exhibition space [installed with metal mountings made so it is easy to take out and place back in place, plug and play, whenever access to the storage was required]
Second linear accelerator installed also on the inside of the storage space opening the door into the exhibition space [installed with metal mountings made so it is easy to take out and place back in place, plug and play, whenever access to the storage was required]
- Curated by:
- Photographs by:
Karolina Zajaczkowska
- Film footage by:
Agata Cieslak
- Edit by:
Stephan Blumenschein