Notes on
W E C H S E L R A U M

W E C H S E L R A U M is a interdisciplinary, collaborative project with a spatial drawing made of (char)coal at its center. Artists* from the fields of art and science are invited to take over and change this site-specific work. The chemical transformation of wood into (char)coal is the starting point for the joint exploration of current time and space phenomena. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, a permanent transformation process will take place until the spatial drawing is dissolved. In a relay race, the term “space of change” defines the area where one runner* passes the baton to the next runner*.

W E C H S E L R A U M is an ephemeral format at the intersection of exhibition, performance, and production, in which the material of (char)coal becomes the object of communication for individual artistic and scientific positions. The exhibition space becomes a temporary laboratory and public platform, constructed through the constant transformation that the individual artistic positions produce in the process.

W E C H S E L R A U M is a discourse which arises through interplay and communication between all participants over a fixed period of time. Everything that constitutes itself in space becomes the starting material for following artists*. Each new position – in its temporal sequence – creates a temporary system of order, permanent transformation, and new reality(ies) in space. Wechselraum is a process with an open end.

W E C H S E L R A U M is a spatial and temporal community of performers and their audience. Visually fragmentary, constant shifts in the roles of perception, communication, spatiality, and temporality become condensed into new contexts. Social relevance reified through community building.

W E C H S E L R A U M is an orchestra. All participants perform a common piece and play their solo. Visual and tonal themes appear and disappear, vary and repeat. Instructions, which function like sheets of music in a score, are passed on to the next artist*. Transitions always take place at the same time. The duration of an individual time frame is varied.