Installation, Berlin

Although the Tape Installation is conceived as a kind of parasite, site specific object located at places like old attic, columns of a historical building, group of tries or an industrial concrete structure, due to the location change of DMY a custom scaffolding construction had to be made. Therefore the installation appeared more like a captured UFO on the old Tempelhof Airport and less like a cocoon. The installation was executed within four days (approximately 160 working hours) utilizing almost 700 conventional transparent tapes (45 km of tape).

The tendons of multiple layers of transparent adhesive tape are firstly stretched in between a construction. The following continuous wrapping of tendons results in a complex, amorphous surface through the process reminiscent of growing of organic forms. The idea for the installation originates in a set design concept for a dance performance in which the form evolves from the movement of the dancers between the pillars. The dancers are stretching the tape while they move, so the resulting shape is a (tape) recording of the choreography.

The installation won the DMY Award 2010.

Mikser is the biggest design festival in Southeastern Europe. The installation was located under a roof of a loading platform and connected the platform to the silo on one side and a grain-transport bridge on the other. The installation was executed within four days (approximately 160 working hours) utilizing almost 700 conventional transparent tapes (45 km of tape).

The installation was executed in a neo-classical (Italian) renaissance theatre and hosted a seventeen-minute performance of three dancers during Quer, the symposium of interactivity organized by Departure. The installation was made in two working days, utilizing 600 conventional transparent tapes (40 km of tape).