YEAR: 2023
DIMENSIONS: Ø300 cm
WEIGHT: approx. 1000 kilo
MATERIALS: Concrete sphere, wire, overhead travelling crane, computer, algorithm
LOCATION: Atrium, Building 11, AAU SUND
CLIENT: The Danish Building and Property Agency Building: AAU SUND, Aalborg University
USERS: The Faculty of Medicine
LOCATION: Aalborg, DK
PARTNERS: The Danish Road Directorate, the Danish Building and Property Agency, Aalborg University, MT Højgaard, Indigo Konsortiet, BK Teknik, VL Design,
TEAM: AVPD, Aksel Leer, Isabelle Maduit, My Gander, Alexandra Wedderkopp Emelianov, Cecilie Ahlgreen, Emma Høeg, Panos Stamidis, Radu Rusu, Hanna Ungar Felding, Caroline Stokholm, Mike Poompin-Pedersen, Emilie Kirkegaard Bertelsen and Emil Ussing
In the atrium in Building 11, MASS is suspended in a thin wire. To the naked eye, the concrete sphere measuring three metres across would seem to be a heavy and static object. But just as we believe we know where it is, the sphere has moved – completely soundlessly.
MASS ascends unnoticed from first-floor height to the ceiling, stealthily moving among meeting boxes, hovering above footbridges, finally landing at the other end of the room like a potent element with a will of its own, a destructive force now controlled and tamed.
In reality, MASS is secured by a seamlessly integrated overhead travelling crane, defining the atrium as a three-dimensional system of coordinates. An algorithm moves MASS round the atrium like a persisting spherical body in a never-ending indoor planetary orbit. There is no logic, no nexus between cause and effect.
MASS plays on the relationship between what we think, we see, and what we actually experience. With this work, AVPD stage-manages the drama of the moment when we discover that we can no longer trust in our own experience, the second when our foundations begin to crumble, and we step into unknown territory to acknowledge the incomprehensible.
Link to other works in the commsssion: Mural / Opacity
Download PDF-documentation: AVPD_Dokumentation_PossibleImpossible_2023.pdf
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