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Meno Priezvisko
Meno Priezvisko
Meno Priezvisko


Anchor 1
There, There
Gallery project, interactive, various dimension
24.5. - 3.7. 2022
MEDIUM Gallery Bratislava, SK
Artists:
Tomáš Moravanský
The exhibition itself is a kind of maze of interactive storytelling, in a space of 9 medium-sized and small rooms where the visitor‘s body corresponds with the space on the level of basic stimuli or challenges of distance - movement - light / darkness, or sound associations.
The basic motif of the exhibition was the installation of artificial lighting connected to sensors reacting to movement, but realized in a different part of the space than the light itself. The lights and sensors were often placed very far apart. The visitor was thus always in an unlit point within his location, guided by light shafts from other rooms. If the visitors stopped moving, they found themselves in complete darkness after a while. The light installation was choreographed so that at each point in the space the light created an imaginary story of past or future movement as well as a visual composition of lighting. In the event that multiple
people were in the gallery at one moment, they could assist with movement or conversely create a different system of light composition. The visitor thus had to learn to adapt to the place, sometimes encountering fears of surprise in the dark.
The exhibition also included a mobile cassette recorder - the audio track of the audio guide - which contained a special cassette tape, modified to play the audio in an endless loop as long as the visitor played it. It contained a woman‘s voice by which the visitor could be guided (or just passively listen to the track). The entire content of the audio recording consisted of the well-known game „you‘re gonna burn!“ when the cues „cold“ or „hot“ are recited. In this case, however, „you‘re going to burn!“ is never heard. Some visitors were fooled by the fake interactivity and searched for a non-existent goal, experiencing disappointment or a sense of satisfaction from inferring their own meanings from the events around them, which, however, was very often just the result of superstition.
As part of the exhibition, there was also a live clown performance passively standing behind the locked door of a small maintenance room as part of the opening.





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