PUSTE *
an installation in four dimensions, made of dust, sound, light & concrete.
* 1. Puste: (n.|fem) breath, air.
2. puste: imperative of pusten: (intr. v.) 0.1 blow, breathe / 0.2 blow, storm / 0.3 pant, be out of breath.
(photo: Horst Griese)
In 26 hours and 44 minutes, I removed the dust layer of a 6.212,33 sq.m. sized floor with a vacuum cleaner. I meticulously sieved the amount of dust. I stored only the finest dust particles within the concrete walls of the warehouse's scale model. The loudspeaker plays a reversed recording of the sound of the vacuum cleaner. The dust particles are whirled up by the pressure waves of the loudspeaker through a funnel-and-hose system. The spotlight radiates heat, causing an up-current. Slowly, the dust particles are spread again over the floor, this way closing the circle.
(photo: Horst Griese)
Floor plan of the warehouse. In the circle, the position of the work.
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