2018, interactive room installation, 20m x 3.5m x 7m, metal, textile, mirrors, steel cable, electrical winch
Verhangenheit & Zugkunst was part of a one-day exhibition at Karlshorst Theater, Berlin on the Day of the Open Monument (9 September 2018). The show, We Are All Cyborgs Now, was prepared in response to a semester-long discussion of Donna Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ (1984) and repurposed materials from the theater dating back to the 1950s. As an interactive installation consisting of scaffolding, mirrors, and a 15-meter curtain, Verhangenheit & Zugkunst urges the viewer to adjust the mechanized pulley system from a distance; never quite in control of how it falls. The metal scaffolding, which is reassembled in a fragile way, questions its original stability, while the mirrors incite an ontological inquiry into past, present, and future dimensions — in the body of the old cinema, a mechanized cyborgian being is implanted.