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  • Jerusalem -
    Jerusalem
    10 - 16 June 2009
    Overview of Jerusalem Archaeological Park during the Festival of Light
    The golden dome on the left is Al Aqsa mosque. The other sides of the park in view are bounded by the walls of the old city.
    Abstract Cosmology ....
  • The Neighbour -
    "The neighbour, neither friend nor enemy, is the one who may not be in your "network", but is nevertheless in your world." (Sukumaran)

    This ambitious project is Sukumaran's first major one-person exhibition in the UK. In The Neighbour, two...
  • Park View Hotel -
    Park View Hotel stretches between the Cesar Chavez plaza in downtown San Jose and the neighbouring Fairmont Hotel. Using specially-built pointing devices, audiences in the park can access interior hotel spaces, by "pinging" them optically. Once found...
  • Shrink -
    Two large, transparent plastic sheets and a device that gradually sucks the air out from between them leave the body (in this case the artist himself) vacuum-packed and vertically suspended. The transparent tube inserted between the two surfaces...
  • Nemo Observatorium -
    Styrofoam beads are blown around in a big transparent PVC cylinder by five strong fans. Visitors can take place on the armchair in the middle of the whirlpool or observe from the outside one at a time. On the chair, in the eye of the storm it is calm...
  • Nevel -
    A matrix of nine pivoting walls forms a labyrinth whose architecture continuously changes. A sequence of different compositions creates choreography of spaces flowing into one another. It is an auto choreographic space to wander and get lost in, like...
  • Rope
    A rope slowly curls around a chair, caressing it carefully. As the speed increases, the torsion builds up and the rope becomes a strangling snake approaching it's pray and eventually the chair is violently tossed around. Although a computer programme...
  • Tollen
    In an arena of about 6m by 10m the artist puts a number of spinning tops in motion. He attempts to drive them as a kind of flock or lets them interact as a kind of self-sustaining system. They move in unpredictable ways, sometimes careful and...
  • Transporter -
    2 conveyor belts of about 13m long are set up next to each other and running in opposite directions. People can lay down on them to be transported very slowly. Hidden under the surface an invisible mechanism produces a subtle yet intense tactile...
  • Boreas -
    A matrix of sixty-four tubes is spread out equally over the room. These tubes bend over extremely slowly as if a slow motion wind were touching them. Leaning into one another they reach out to the visitors like the tentacles of a giant snail. The...