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.

Arnold Schalks, 2010, PUSTE (Eine Parabel vom Kommen & Gehen), PUSTE (een parabel van komen en gaan), groepstentoonstelling, PUSTE (a parable of coming & going), group exhibition, Staub, dust, stof,  staubsaugen, stofzuigen, vacuum cleaning, Achim Bitter, Horst Griese, Andree Korpys, Markus Löffler, Mario Asef, Christoph Bannat, Christian Haake. Andrej Holm, Kate Newby, Matteo Rubbi en Isa Griese, Cora Schmeiser, Raimar Stange, Florian Waldvogel, Andreas Bernhardt, Samya Boutros Mikhail, Christian Bungies, Emese Kazár, Tobias Klich, Danuta Kurz, Paida, Judith Rau, Tim Reinecke, André Sassenroth, Philipp Schneider, Z. Schmidt / Angie Oettingshausen, Sebastian Schneider, Malte Schweiger, Natalie Wild, Daniel Wimmer, Treasure-Land, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Klondike River, Schuppen 1, Überseestadt, Bremen

(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.

 

Arnold Schalks, 2010, PUSTE (Eine Parabel vom Kommen & Gehen), PUSTE (een parabel van komen en gaan), groepstentoonstelling, PUSTE (a parable of coming & going), group exhibition, Staub, dust, stof,  staubsaugen, stofzuigen, vacuum cleaning, Achim Bitter, Horst Griese, Andree Korpys, Markus Löffler, Mario Asef, Christoph Bannat, Christian Haake. Andrej Holm, Kate Newby, Matteo Rubbi en Isa Griese, Cora Schmeiser, Raimar Stange, Florian Waldvogel, Andreas Bernhardt, Samya Boutros Mikhail, Christian Bungies, Emese Kazár, Tobias Klich, Danuta Kurz, Paida, Judith Rau, Tim Reinecke, André Sassenroth, Philipp Schneider, Z. Schmidt / Angie Oettingshausen, Sebastian Schneider, Malte Schweiger, Natalie Wild, Daniel Wimmer, Treasure-Land, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Klondike River, Schuppen 1, Überseestadt, Bremen

(photo: Horst Griese)

 

Arnold Schalks, 2010, PUSTE (Eine Parabel vom Kommen & Gehen), PUSTE (een parabel van komen en gaan), groepstentoonstelling, PUSTE (a parable of coming & going), group exhibition, Staub, dust, stof,  staubsaugen, stofzuigen, vacuum cleaning, Achim Bitter, Horst Griese, Andree Korpys, Markus Löffler, Mario Asef, Christoph Bannat, Christian Haake. Andrej Holm, Kate Newby, Matteo Rubbi en Isa Griese, Cora Schmeiser, Raimar Stange, Florian Waldvogel, Andreas Bernhardt, Samya Boutros Mikhail, Christian Bungies, Emese Kazár, Tobias Klich, Danuta Kurz, Paida, Judith Rau, Tim Reinecke, André Sassenroth, Philipp Schneider, Z. Schmidt / Angie Oettingshausen, Sebastian Schneider, Malte Schweiger, Natalie Wild, Daniel Wimmer, Treasure-Land, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Klondike River, Schuppen 1, Überseestadt, Bremen

Floor plan of the warehouse. In the circle, the position of the work.

 

 

 

The reversed, processed recording of the sound of the vacuum cleaner.

 

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