Installation made of Christmas tree tops and rubber, wooden book
Dimension: 200cm x 200cm x variabel, 2023
“Tokamak” is an installation in the form of a playpen made especially for very young audiences. By explicitly addressing very young visitors, Anna Schiefer’s artistic work subverts the common norms of a museum space – which is generally characterised by “please don’t touch!” and by art that addresses only adults.
The name of the installation “Tokamak” refers first of all to a shape; namely, that of a nuclear fusion reactor. The spiral paths of the particles in the reactor form the starting point of the spatial analysis of this installation. The installation makes this toroidal form of the reactor literally tangible and thus forms a haptic-visual field of experience for visitors in the first months of life. The floor is the level with which the infant has the greatest contact and which has a higher density of perception.”Tokamak” is an attempt to identify and try out this field as a playing field of objects and actors and object-actors.
Installation made of Christmas tree tops and rubber, wooden book
Dimension: 200cm x 200cm x variabel, 2023
“Tokamak” is an installation in the form of a playpen made especially for very young audiences. By explicitly addressing very young visitors, Anna Schiefer’s artistic work subverts the common norms of a museum space – which is generally characterised by “please don’t touch!” and by art that addresses only adults.
The name of the installation “Tokamak” refers first of all to a shape; namely, that of a nuclear fusion reactor. The spiral paths of the particles in the reactor form the starting point of the spatial analysis of this installation. The installation makes this toroidal form of the reactor literally tangible and thus forms a haptic-visual field of experience for visitors in the first months of life. The floor is the level with which the infant has the greatest contact and which has a higher density of perception.”Tokamak” is an attempt to identify and try out this field as a playing field of objects and actors and object-actors.