ALEXANDER JOHANNES

In Dialectics of Space and Place, two modes of perceiving space encounter one another: the Substanzraum (space of substance) as a breathing, ever-shifting materiality, and the conceptual space of measurement and order. Fog and laser are not set in opposition; instead, they reveal their mutual dependency. The laser structures what it could not show without the fog, and the fog renders visible what would remain intangible without structure. The installation articulates a dialectic in which process and grid, atmosphere and abstraction emerge as two inseparable aspects of the same reality.
The soundsystem Place as Impulse expands the spatial experience into the realm of sound. Live impulses from the exhibition space are fed into the system, transformed, and projected back into the space. Thus a responsive soundscape emerges that can be performed, or be running by itself creating subtle sonic resonances between the space, the athmospheric phenomena, and the visitors.