Spaces of Uncertainty

5 – 15 September 2016

As part of the Summer Academy in Stuttgart, during September 2016, a number of projected interventions were installed at the Württembergischer Kunstverein.

Using an overlooked corner of the large Kunstverein gallery space, these projected light installations which ‘brushed’ the surface of the walls, were present for short periods, and then disappeared (when the projection devices were switched off), leaving only the memory of the event.

Walking past the corner – on the way to more significant parts of the gallery – the ‘drawn’ luminous lines shift perceptually and clash slightly with our sense of the room’s edges, challenging how we expect them to appear as we move past.

There is a perspective ‘animation’ here, activated entirely by the viewer’s visual expectation and their movement past the work.

The Summer Academy (part of the European Erasmus Programme) brought together students and staff from seven partner institutions:

The Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE)
Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava
Kingston University
University of Dundee
Nottingham Trent University.

Teaching staff led workshops with students from these European institutions and also developed aspects of their own research through conversation, consultation, collaboration, and individual making and testing.