Facadeprinter

MusraraMix, Jerusalem

We just started packing for our first trip to Israel! We’re very happy to be invited to this year’s MusraraMix Festival in Jerusalem. The festival is organized by The Naggar School and takes place from 22.–24.05.2012.

Corner Shot, Live Painting Performance with Klub 7

On the 1st of July 2011, Klub 7 celebrated the publishing of the first book about their art-collective  at Schaufenster, a gallery for contemporary art in Kreuzberg. Klub 7  invited us to join in for a collaborational live Printing/Painting-Session at the opening. We both enjoyed the contrasts between our physical computing and Klub 7′s fine manual skills.

All evening we felt like beeing part of this Stylebattle of RUN DMC and Aerosmith in ‘Walk this Way’.  When we all stepped back to see were we ended up, Diskorobot from Klub7 said: “To me that’s grafitti in 2011!”. Let’s go back to the future.

“Leave!” Pièce de Résistance, Amsterdam (Update)

On saturday, 24th of April 2011, we were invited to join the opening of the exibition “Pièce de Résistance” at Mediamatic in Amsterdam. We flew over and contributed a quick and dirty 10min print-performance quoting the arabic word: “Leave!”.  A direct imperatif of the people of Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen to their dictators: Beat it!

Moataz Nasreldin in front of his work ’25th of january’, an arrangement of handwritten protest-signs from the egyptian revolution. To the right Mike Ballards ‘whose coat is the jacket you’re wearing’. (Photos by Mar-Ina Uhrig)

Saron Paz‘ work ‘story store’ on the left side. The  ‘perpetual story telling apparatus’ by Julius von Bismarck and Benjamin Maus to the right. The exibition Pièce de Résistance runs from April 24 to June 25 2011. Location: Mediamatic Bank, Vijzelstraat 68 Amsterdam. Opened daily from 13:00 to 19:00.

Leave! Egyptian Protesters in January 2011 photographed by Zeinab Mohamed.

Prägung

A percussive working process as spacial installation, a cooperation of Harald Christ and Sonice Development.

When our friend Harald asked us some months ago, if we would like to get involved into a spacial-accoustic installation we did not guess where it would take us to. Shooting onto metal.

Sheet metal membranes, similar to an orchestral thunder sheet, are transformed physically and acoustically by our kinetic-pneumatic robot. The installation offers two distinct perpectives:
First the objectroom: Facing the membrane, you experience a multisensoric energetic transformation. You are visually attracted, physically protected and accoustically repulsed by the membrane.
Second the machineroom: The cycle-process is revealed, the membrane is now perceived as merely being one part of a more complex system, consisting of the pneumatic robot, the polyamid projectiles and the conveyer for returning the projectiles. From both perspectives the materiality is drastically tangible while opening a surface to spatiality, the membranes remain as storage media of the process.

Freedom of Speech

On Saturday, December 11th, we waded through mud up to our ankels to prepare the promised Freedom of Speech wall. During our trip to Sweden we learned our lessons about printing under bad weather conditions. So we brought a fully taped and professionally trashbag-wrapped Facadeprinter with us. It handled the snow much better than our feet the wet shoes and so we came up with a trouble free 1.4m to 12m lettering. It somehow gave a certain rush to see the word “FREE” growing dot after dot on this wall so close to the former inner German border, opposite the newly constructed building of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (German intelligence service).
A handfull of die-hard spectators and friends welcomed every letter and finally we toasted to the “fragile freedom” with hot wine punch. Thanks for the pleasant afternoon to everone at the set, the writers whose pieces we painted over and Artitude e.V. for the permission.

Wishes for the coming year?
Write them on the wall. 

All the best for 2011!

Michael, Martin and Julian
Sonice Development