Lofty Dryness

Installation view, Kunsthalle Bern, 2003
Installation view, Kunsthalle Bern, 2003
Detail Installation, Kunsthalle Bern, 2003
Detail Installation, Kunsthalle Bern, 2003

Rainwater piped from the roof through the exhibition halls and out again. Copper piping, drilled-holes through walls.
Essence from mineral water, applied directly to the walls. Modul of 9 mailboxes. Each mailbox filled with books and scientific data on water, labeled “Transdisciplinarity”, “Sustainability”, “Metalog”, “Hazard”, “Responsibility”, “Vulnerability”, “Identity”, Mindfullness”, “Reversability”. Essence from mineral water on 10 silver serving plates taken from the Kurhaus Vulpera-Tarasp (CH), after its destruction by arson in 1989.

Sound installation: Water-sounds from the Kunsthalle Bern, water-sounds from the Swiss Alps. 24 channel Stereomix on CD. Composed and produced in co-operation with Michael A. Bühlmann. Recording and postproduction: pce services Ltd. Bern.

Lofty Dryness (2003)