Paul Spengemann creates creatures and has them tell stories. For his new work he has created a character that is moving into the Berg Fidel sports hall during the “FLURSTÜCKE” festival. While, normally, basketball or volleyball Bundesliga matches take place there, attracting thousands of visitors with a lot of action and commotion, it is now an eight-legged creature that invites them to visit the huge hall during the off-season. The sports hall and its specific environment become a projection surface for Spengemann’s laser show, for which he translates animations into simple line constellations, creating a rather distinctive visual world—a reverie which at the same time relates to the perturbed world as it exists here and now.
As if it had just arrived from another world, this creature seems confused. The space so large, itself so small—it gets tangled up in thought. A sense of loneliness and forlornness coincide with a large public arena. What in the world is going on in this place where people are always facing each other, competing against each other, following their very own set of rules? And there is so much space to spin nets. But what exactly do those nets imply that already exist here, those appearing from time to time only to disappear again? Is there someone to be afraid of?
An event in the context of the International Festival for Dance, Theatre, Performance and Film.
curated by
Merle Radtke
by Kunsthalle Münster at Sporthalle Berg Fidel
until June 30, 2024