Device

The artpiece »Device« of the Berlin artist Sabine Huzikiewiz operates between design and art, between commodity and object of observation. A double picture frame opens up an intermediate space in which pictures can be hung in a sliding manner on white or black grids. On the sides of the wooden frame runs a perforation similar to a 35-mm film strip, created with the help of a 3D program and a CNC milling machine. The multiple flexibilities of »Device« allows an open structure for working with images that can become visible and invisible next to and behind each other. As an apparatus for art historical research and as a collection piece, Device has now been relocated to the TAT exhibition space. For the exhibition »Stretching Materialities«, it is the mobile site of an exhibition documentation in transition, which can also be the site or starting point for performative situations in the TAT. In this sense, »Device« is an object that creates a milieu in which to act.

The manner of framing or giving a certain structure goes together with an idea of the practice of inviting other thoughts and involvement - as a way of documentation as well as an extension of the exhibition »Stretching Materialities«.

While Philipp Reuver conceived his ›Liederabend‹, a presentation of his music in two parts in the historical lecture hall and on the platform in the rotunda, Lena Dues, Carola Uehlken and Arthur Debert elaborate together with the art historian Nina Samuel an evening which explored experiences and narratives between the organic and the inorganic associated with artifacts, natural objects, and the interior of our own bodies.

Artist Arthur Debert presented his work »Orbits« in a workshop conducted with a series of sculptures collected for the sole purpose of being passed from hand to hand.

Curator and art historian Nina Samuel talked with artist Lena Dues, who could place one of her experimental art works in the vitrine Samuel arranged, about the processual nature of stones and how knowledge emerges from touch.

Curator and artiste Carola Uehlken's talk »Microbes at Court« drew attention to the microorganisms that govern our bodies from the inside out.