Last week, I gave a workshop at the Art School Kassel, where the goal was to build mobile art galleries, that could be carried by hand and placed in the public space.
It was completely up to the students which kind of content they want to present in the galleries and I was very delighted about the result. They decided to turn the rooms into a strange 2001-like appartement in which you can play a real world hack ‘n’ slay videogame.
This video was entirely filmed by Olaf Val with his cellphone.
A more detailed video about the final performance will follow soon. For the moment, you can also check the workshop blog where you can find a detailed description of the performance [German only] and tons of nice photos.
The performance will be repeated several times in July during the Spaziergang Kassel.
By the beginning of the year, Geschichte für Alle, an association from Nurmeberg asked me if I could produce mechatronic theatre decorations for their walk through the medieval cellar networks in Nuremberg.
All decorations are related either to the history of the cellar or to the history of Nuremberg.
The video below shows an example that picks out the fact that the Nuremberg citizen Martin Behaim inspired the invention of the first terrestrial globe.
The premiere of the theatre play is this Friday. You can contact Geschichte für Alle to get tickets for the show.
Here is a documentation of the workshop at Club Transmediale 2009. We were building little electromechanic synthesizers. An old strowger switch from a telephone distribution unit was used as step sequencer to let the mini machines play a rhythmic pattern.
It will be shown first in Berlin at the Club Transmediale Exhibition in the Kunstraum Kreuzberg (from 24.1. – 1.3.) and then it will travel to Amsterdam, the Hague and Zurich.
Club Transmediale also invited me to give a workshop as you can read in the entry below.
