YEAR : 2001
EXHIBITION : Copenhagen Brands, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
MEASURES : Adaptive
MATERIALS : Fire hoses, fittings, rain nozzles, fire hose bridge, water
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RainOnOff manifests itself as a constructed, temporary shower in a street. This constructedness is a result of our passion and attraction to the film’s artificial set-up, asserting through the use of scenographical effects its own reality.Specifically for RainOnOff we adopt one of the illusory devices of the film and bring it into an urban space. The set-up that in the space of the film is hidden or cut away, is laid open in our project, and the rain as ambassador for a natural romanticist (nature-romantic) notion is deconstructed into a synthesis of artificiality and authenticity.The uncontrollable primitive force and the emotional states of mind attributed to the rain are deromanticized and dismantled through RainOnOff and are left behind as a man-made construction which can be turned on and off.
