Soft Interventions
Hannes Priesch with Herta Kramer-Priesch
Venue: foyer and throughout the building
Barrier tapes are used to section areas off from one another and to control access. Hannes Priesch and Herta Kramer-Priesch were commissioned to explore the topic of barriers, and in particular accessibility and inaccessibility both in the foyer and throughout the building.
With a wry touch they invoke and transform street signs, industrial barrier fencing, prohibition signs:
- Dog chains with spikes, usually intended to intimidate, lose their function and hence their power to frighten us.
- A crowd barrier becomes a cartoon-like woven fence in gleaming blue, the textile signs take a playful approach to prohibitions, mixing up meanings such as “Warning, closed! Dog bites!”
Summary:
Militant seeming barriers become absurd sculptural objects made of unusual materials whose tactile quality actually encourages us to touch them.
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