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  • Cracks to Oases -
    The book describes my personal observations during the workshop Ingrutatti Palermo as part of ‹Manifesta 12› in July 2018. In the course of these 10 days, I was part of a group of artists and architects from around the world. Sara Kamalvand’s
  • Peeping into a mirror-clad triangular prism, a surveillance camera observes images of its own species, while the kaleidoscopic reflections turn the devices into floral ornaments, referring to the ever-growing arrays of CCTV equipment in a tropical
  • A tropical garden in Singapore - not as it exists in a photorealistic representation but in our vision and in our memory: The Yunnan garden on NTU campus is currently undergoing redevelopment. Its design was inspired by Chinese Garden architecture
  • Decision Disc N°1 -
    Are you confronted with a difficult choice? Don't you know wether to do something or not? Then pose your question, play the record and you'll easily find the right solution! As soon as a coin is flipped into the air, as soon as the dice is thrown,
  • How can Nietzsche’s fear of the Eternal Return made comprehensible, even if it may fallen victim to wrong interpretation? Elke Reinhuber's approach to explicate this problem is a vinyl record of an endlessly reiterating sound, which emphasises the
  • Forced Leisure -
    A hammock, a symbol of leisure, relaxation and even freedom, is combined with elements of a straitjacket. Textile sensors are woven into the fabric and measure the “degree of relaxation”. Movement and attempts of escape are detected in different
  • Profilneurose -
    'A profile like a witch' – I often thought when looking in the mirror, or when my shadow flits past me. Cosmetic surgery promises a remedy. But does that make us happier, better, more beautiful, more lovable? First the nose, then the chin, a bit
  • Spectators enter an intimate space to meet face-to-face with a performer offering her body as an interface to the media environment. Performer's outfit and scenic environment are equipped with touch sensors, theremins, and multiple buttons and
  • Two dancers, a visual artist and a sound artist, perform live. Performing bodies as an interface between the spectators and the media environment. By manipulating the sensors, spectators can modify certain parameters of the media environment.
  • Performers interact with images and sounds and manipulate four mobile projection surfaces, orchestrating a set of changing architectural constructions. Spectators circulate freely like visitors to an installation, accessing multiple points of view