The Lost Space of Stiller 2009
Max Frisch Archive
ETH Zurich, Zentrum, Haupthalle, CH
19th Feb - 13th Mar 2009
Collaboration with architect Markus Seifermann on the 2009 exhibition The Lost Space of Stiller - A Spatial Approximation presented by the Max Frisch Archive at ETH Zurich. The three commissions for this show included Forest 2008, Ear Worms 2009 and Rock Around The Clock 2009.
“Three outsize wooden freight containers grouped around a scene resembling a living room, with a couch, TV, carpet and chandelier. This mobile ‘apartment’ is the home of the imagined figure of the «identity stalker». He collects clues to Stiller’s putative identity, which he plans to compile into a whole – a project which is doomed to failure. In a museum-like bathroom in a container, for example, a number of suspended razors hum an electrifying, repetitive rhythm. In a glass case opposite there are glass bowls with landscapes made up of whiskers – a «shaving diary», as the accompanying text explains. A projection in the dining room shows Zurich buildings where people by the name of Stiller live. From one corner of the hall fragments of conversation flow upwards from a number of gramophone horns, while in the third container six dummy torsos are suspended on meat hooks over a long table containing meat grinders. In the installation film, objets trouvés, sounds and images merge into a partly buoyant, partly threatening overall work of art, with the name 'Stiller’ becoming a universal metaphor for a disowned identity.”
Taken from "Lost Space Found - Architecture with a Story" by Noemie Schwaller - Architonic.
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Max Frisch Archive
ETH Zurich, Zentrum, Haupthalle, CH
19th Feb - 13th Mar 2009
Collaboration with architect Markus Seifermann on the 2009 exhibition The Lost Space of Stiller - A Spatial Approximation presented by the Max Frisch Archive at ETH Zurich. The three commissions for this show included Forest 2008, Ear Worms 2009 and Rock Around The Clock 2009.
“Three outsize wooden freight containers grouped around a scene resembling a living room, with a couch, TV, carpet and chandelier. This mobile ‘apartment’ is the home of the imagined figure of the «identity stalker». He collects clues to Stiller’s putative identity, which he plans to compile into a whole – a project which is doomed to failure. In a museum-like bathroom in a container, for example, a number of suspended razors hum an electrifying, repetitive rhythm. In a glass case opposite there are glass bowls with landscapes made up of whiskers – a «shaving diary», as the accompanying text explains. A projection in the dining room shows Zurich buildings where people by the name of Stiller live. From one corner of the hall fragments of conversation flow upwards from a number of gramophone horns, while in the third container six dummy torsos are suspended on meat hooks over a long table containing meat grinders. In the installation film, objets trouvés, sounds and images merge into a partly buoyant, partly threatening overall work of art, with the name 'Stiller’ becoming a universal metaphor for a disowned identity.”
Taken from "Lost Space Found - Architecture with a Story" by Noemie Schwaller - Architonic.
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