So it goes
"Well, here we are Mr Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
This installation was developed for a one evening event which took place on the 11 floor of an abandoned office building. 26 artists where asked to create a small piece of max 3 min. All these pieces were to be shown or performed in consecutive order. The event was organized by 2m3 and took place in the beginning of 2014 in Brussels.
So it goes... was my contribution to this event. In the main corridor of the space, the original suspended ceiling was modified. Like in many office buildings the ceiling consisted of small strips of metal attached to a suspended framework. Some of the individual strips were removed from the framework and equipped with electromagnets to hold them in place on the ceiling. From a computer the electromagnet on each individual strip could be controlled. Switching off the power would cause a strip to come down.
The scenario took place at an in between moment at which people were moving from one performance to the other. (Though there was some staging to make sure people would not be harmed.) A couple of individual strips fell with intermittent timing. This to grab peoples attention. This was followed by a collapse of the remaining strips. Lights went out
and languages of different areas of expression, questioning the image and its relationship with time and space by investigating the languages of cinema, audio-visual and plastic arts, a questioning in act.
Documentation
The following is a registration made at the evening of the event.
