Physical Reality Devices, work-in-progress performative walk, Berlin, photo by Martti Kaartinen
performative sculptures
Physical Reality Devices are framing tools, touchable and usable art objects that suggest an intensification of the act of seeing and a questioning of one’s own perception. As a work-in-progress the series of Devices is developed further hand-in-hand with a performative walk in public space.
Audio pieces about seeing and the biological and cultural-historical construction of perspective are interwoven into a site-specific walk in public spaces.
The user becomes a performer, examining the environment as if through VR glasses, which is recomposed in the devices. Inside Physical Reality Devices the gaze is redirected and recomposed by mirrors. We see what would not be visible from one’s own point of view without these tools.
„Inside Physical Reality Devices“, trailer, 2min.
Physical Reality Devices, work-in-progress performative walk, Berlin, 2023, photos by Martti Kaartinen
Physical Reality Devices, work-in-progress performative walk, Berlin, 2023, photos: Martti Kaartinen
physical reality devices (ongoing)
Site-specific walks have been conceived for Botanical Garden and Haus der Statistik, Berlin (in the frame of the residency and exhibition What if…?, 2024) and Physical Reality Devices am Steinplatz, in the frame of the funding program Stadt findet Kunst (2025), in collaboration with Palast Kiosk.
Physical Reality Devices have been exhibited in Schloss Britz as part of the group exhibition Bild und Plan (2024).
With many thanks to everyone that participated in the walks and feedbacks.
The audiowalk at Steinplatz was funded in the frame of Stadt findet Kunst with the BESD Förderung of bezirklichen kulturellen Projekten im Stadtraum von Berlin, Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf von Berlin, Fachbereich Kultur.
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR.
performative sculptures
The first Physical Reality Devices were conceived for the A.I.R. „digital framework“ by TRIALE, in Gallmannsegg, 2022
Physical Reality Device I
view from inside
Physical Reality Device II, for TRIALE „digital framework“ Gallmannsegg, 2022
view from inside
physical reality device I + II
Many thanks to Christina H. Romirer und Kati Jerabek
In the frame of Artist in Residence and the project „digital framework“, TRIALE Gallmannsegg (AT), 07/2022
