In the air :
Control Room Tempelhof
an installation by Agnes Meyer–Brandis
The ResearchRaft - Institute for Art and Subjective Science (FF) is anchoring at the control tower, Airport Tempelhof, where the current results from the Laboratory of Applied Falling (LAF) will be presented. The special focus of this department is the investigation of migration movements inside, outside and above Earth, focusing on moments and objects in a pending state between falling and flying. In addition,
the Central Department for Control Rooms (ZAK) will be revealed for the first time in the 10 years of successful research activity of the FF. The Central Department for Control Rooms is a constantly transforming installation and poetic archive that allows one to experience a variety of experiments, observations and methods of the artist and her guests.
Xombie Flight Test, Masten Space Systems,CA, 2010
Foto @ Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG-Bildkunst
ResearchRaft - Institute for Art and subjective Science
Originally founded 10 years ago the ResearchRaft is a permanently altering meta-installation in the shape of an Institute for Art and subjective Science. The institute deals with artistic reality research that manifests itself as performances, lectures and installations. One can have encounters with the institute in tents*1, on boats*2, on islands*3, on a zero gravity plane of the German Aerospace Agency*4, at conferences*5, in museums, or even on a glacier*6. The content of the global research can be detected on the edges of the familiar realities: inside holes, stones, clouds or under weightlessness.
*1 - Transmediale, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2006
*2 - Bienal del Fine del Mundo, Beagle Kanal, Ushuaia, Argentina, 2009
*3 - The Moon Goose Experiment, island in the river Ob near Novosibirsk, Russia, 2008
*4 - German Aerospace Agency DLR, parabolic flight campaign, 2007
*5 - International Astronautical Congress IAC, Glasgow, UK, 2009
*6 - Field Test Dachstein, Tiefenrausch, OK-Centrum, Dachstein, Austria, 2008
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Location: Airport Tower Berlin Tempelhof, Entrance: Westwing, Entrance Building 7D
Tempelhofer Damm, 12101 Berlin
(near U6 Paradestrasse)
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167:22:06: Scott: [..]
In my left hand, I have a feather; in my right hand, a hammer. And I guess one of the reasons why we got here today was because of a gentleman named Galileo, a long time ago, who made a rather significant discovery about falling objects in gravity fields. And we thought where would be a better place to confirm his findings than on the Moon. [...]
Source: Apollo 15, Lunar Surface Journal, Transcript
Hammer and Feather drop, Fall-Experiment #7, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, 2011, in cooperation with the Institute for Geophysik and extraterrestrial Physics of the TU Braunschweig (IGEP), research group planet formation. |
Opening: Thursday Oct. 18th at 6pm
Exhibition: Oct. 19th - Nov. 4th 2012
Opening hours: FR, SA, SU, 5-8pm
Location: Airport Tower Berlin Tempelhof, Westwing, Entrance Building 7D
Tempelhofer Damm, 12101 Berlin
(near U6 Paradestrasse)
 Airport Tower Berlin Tempelhof 2012,
Temporary FF Laboratory, Foto: AMB
WIth the help of: Ralf Baecker / Jens Brand / Christian Dietz / Jana Linke / Florian Goltz / Olf Kreisel / An Seebach / Bettina Hillengass / Jim Campbell / special thanks to Dr. Prof. Jürgen Blum & team from the Institute for extraterrestrial Physics IGEP and Carsten Seiffarth / Dock e.V.
Airport Tower Berlin Tempelhof 2012
A production of the ResearchRaft - Institute for Art and subjective Science.
With friendly suport of the Tempelhof Project GmbH, the Department of Cultural Affairs of the Senate of the Federal State of Berlin, the Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics of the TU Braunschweig (IGEP), Masten Space Systems, the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences of the UDK Berlin co-funded by the Einstein Foundation Berlin, item, SCHOTT glass and IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH.
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