Beschreibung
FRANKFURT POSITIONS 2003 `Warum nicht würfeln? Why not to play the dice? A Portikus exhibition in the Städelschule with John Bock, Udo Koch and Ben van Berkel with the Architecture class of the Städelschule. October 12 - November 3, 2003 /// Published in conjunction with the exhibion /// 'Ghosts are just figments of the imagination. They are real in a sense: as imaginary constructs. The reality of the figment is fuller than that of a concept, idea or notion, which is vague, mostly verbally articulated and flat. Figments on the other hand, have a whole story, they move from narrative to narrative, they act and interact and are fully formed bodily: how many times have not dragons, unicorns and satyrs been painted in incredible detail. They are explicit. They are in between the representational and the actual. (...) After Leonardo, the surrealists celebrated the unplanned effects of automatism and the duplicity of the visual; so what I call here the falling from one world into the next is nothing new. But there are new techniques which we can use to evoque those figments of falling (worlds), and we can learn to read so much into them: constructions, as another example shows. Or a third instance; public constructions.'(Ben van Berkel) /// The contribution of the architecture class leaded by Ben van Berkel to the *Frankfurt Positions 2003* was expressed through the spatial installation, inspired on the concept of Figments of Falling. John Bocks film found its place of projection through the falling surface, dislocating the original film. The installation together with the work of John Bock and Udo Koch contributed to a new construction, unfolding several readings of the work. /// ARTISTS: John Bock, Udo Koch, Ben van Berkel and architecture class of the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main / ARCHITECTURE TEAM I Hotel Europe: Haluk Cinar, Juliana Herrero, Daniel Idrovo Ventimilla, Isabella M-Sokinger / CONCEPT: Ben van Berkel / PROJECT LEADER: Sigidur Gunnarsson osd - office for structural design / PARTICLE MODEL: Johan Bettum, Haluk Cinar, Daniel Idrovo Ventimiglia, Isabella M-Stockinger / RESEARCH GROUP: Gabi Schillig, Marc Ottinger, Regine Held / LEADER OF REALIZATION: Francis Clerc ff-Melange / TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Olaf Ebbert, Reckli-Chemiewerkstoff GmbH / Udo Koch thanks: Wolfgang Breuer, Sven Pfeifer (3-dimensional transfer), Kegelmann Technik, HM Color Mohaupt / The works in the exhibition have been commissioned by the BHF-BANK-Stiftung. / JURY: Prof. Dr. Daniel Birnbaum, William Forsythe, Udo Kittelman, Prof. Dr. Wolf Singer / CURATOR: Jochen Volz / PRODUCER: Portikus, Frankfurt am Main /// Publication in context of the Exhibition / Editor: Jochen Volz and Portikus Frankfurt am Main / Printing: Lautertal Druck Franz Bönsel GmbH, Beedenkirchen / Edition of: 1000