Cheshire Cat, Warsaw
Posted by michael | June 27th, 2011It was our old collegue Michael Okraj from designerdeutsch who brought us to our first printing-action in Poland. For Goethe-Institut Warszawie he curated the exibition ’Design in Aktion’ in Mokotowska Street, Warsaw. On 9th of June we performed at the opening in a beautiful backyard.
Cheshire Cat: But I grin and bear it!
Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland.
Thank you very much Katarzyna Bialousz for organising this exibition so perfectly.
Prägung
Posted by michael | April 5th, 2011A 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
Posted by michael | December 27th, 2010
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
MB 21 Festival 2010, Dresden
Posted by michael | November 18th, 2010MB 21 is an award and festival for new-media-excited youngsters up to the age of 21 years. For the 12th time Medienkulturzentrum Dresden e.V. arranged the award and honorated the winners out of 1.400 submissions. We were invited to hold a workshop on facadeprinting. So we assisted youths in drawing vector-files and shooting them onto a 3 to 6m wall down in the garden. Thank you Jill, Helena, Mo, Gagi, Lu, Jens… for turtles, piggies, much more artworks and the fun we had!
