Installation: rotating “mountain” and Sound, in:
Kunsthalle, Basel (CH), 1999
Kunstmuseum, Basel, (CH) 2000
Fotos, Video: Nika Spalinger; Sound: Franziska Lingg
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The moving mass is also a mountain, and the mountain is a tent, and the tent is a blue cap, from which rumbling and hissing noises emerge, die down and then rise again with a force that is not compatible with the structure, which still keeps turning like a latchkey in a spring lock, which is also reminiscent of a ship, and (when it is viewed from the side) of a large blue paper boat. And still the rumbling and hissing grows stronger, and more ominous, as though a pressure cooker were about to explode. The contradiction is so great that it makes children laugh for joy.
Text: Beat Sterchi
