Project Description
Eigengrau
A contemporary phantasmagoria
Performative installation, UBIK Slash Gallery, Rotterdam, 2019
Eigengrau frames the negative space, and therefore it generates an illusion of immaterial space. The installation offers a suspension from the isolation and digital saturation of contemporary society.

Eigengrau, 2019
Since the beginning phantasmagorias were built upon mythological stories, political, sociological and religious propaganda as reflections of the zeitgeist. Eigengrau is the phantasmagoria of the 21st century.
Eigengrau (derived from German origin, meaning ‘dark light’) counters the online individual information overload by creating an offline non-screen mediated collective experience. It proposes a temporary escape in a contemporary setting, where the audience is invited into a collective ritual, a feeling of togetherness. With only the means of stripped back elements of light, sound and haze, the installation creates an emotional illusion, a dialogue between darkness and light.
The performative installation features a custom-made LED circle, that in the timespan of 12 minutes takes the audience through a non linear time of five mental states: Deep State, Anticipation State, Weird state, Higher State and Relaxation State. This narrative is made visible through the pre-programmed motion of blue light gradients, referring to the colour of screen light.

Eigengrau premiere in UBIK Slash Gallery, Rotterdam, 15th of july 2019

Eigengrau, 2019

Phantasmagoria, Robertson, 1789

Phantasmagoria, Philidor, 1759

Eigengrau premiere in UBIK Slash Gallery, Rotterdam, 15th of july 2019
