Chamber of Fluid Conditions
The Installation was part of
“Resonant bodies - sculpture and sound in space”,
at Waschraum, a Groupexhibition.
Exhibition
28 June - 14 July 2024
at the Werkstätte Zurich Altstetten
Multimedia Installation
Tonjaschja Adler & Sound by Lucy Lemon
Room 1:
Projection, space specific,
Video, digital MP4, loop, 3’48’’, edition of 3 2024
Room 2:
Digital Print, Blue Back, edition of 3,
100 x 140 cm
2024
Sound, MP3, loop
7’’ LCD Monitor,
Video, digital MP4, loop 31’’, edition of 3, filmed in Cantonment Road, Singapore.
2024
Photo credits: Regual Müdespacher
About the Installation
"Chamber of fluid conditions"
Short Film by Tonjaschja Adler and Sound by Lucy Lemon, 2024
Recorded in Island of Vallisaari, Finland, Cantonment Road, Bukit Merah, Singapore, Hohlstrasse Zürich, Switzerland.
Subnote to the locations:
I We are in the former welfare centre in part of the historic SBB main complex in Zurich. The washrooms, with shower cubicles and bathrooms, once served as washrooms for the workers of the SBB garages.
Over the next few years, this inner-city industrial complex will be transformed into a workplace for urban production as a place for art and culture.
II In cross-fades, we are at a window in the centre of Cantonment Road, located directly on the boundary between Bukit Merah and the Central Area of Outram, Downtown Core in Singapore. During the rainy season, the car park in front of the building and Cantonment Road fills up with water within seconds. Water has a political significance in Singapore. The country itself goes to great lengths to collect as much water as possible in large water reserves during the monsoon season. Since the 1960s, Singapore has been contractually bound to its neighbour country Malaysia to meet its drinking water needs. Singapore is endeavouring to become water self-sufficient by 2060.
III The third location is on the island of Vallisaari off the Finnish city of Helsinki.
For hundreds of years, this place served as a source of drinking water for sailors. After the war between Sweden and Russia, the site became a military base for the Russian army. After Finland's independence, the Finns used the site as one of their fortresses. Since the last two biennials, it has been an exhibition venue for international art positions during the biennial.
Exhibition View July 2024