is a rose
Charlotte Triebus
In collaboration with MIREVI
Performative installation, 2019
A visitor leans towards a fern. The leaves stir. On a screen across the room, a red sphere changes shape.
Nine plants hang in a circle, each with its roots wrapped in a ball of moss in the manner of kokedama. Visitors can touch a leaf or walk between the plants. Even the air displaced by a passing body is enough to set the fronds in motion.
A tracking system registers the movement of the foliage. On a low-resolution LED panel, a red sphere turns on its axis. Each disturbance leaves a swelling, a tilt or an indentation in its surface. By the end of the day, the sphere holds the accumulated movements of everyone who has passed through the installation.
Installation film
Artist presentation
A moving audience
Charlotte Triebus conceived the installation for an audience already in motion. The camera follows the plants. A visitor who has deliberately touched a frond and a visitor who has simply walked past can both leave a trace. Neither can choose where it appears on the sphere. For Triebus, the distribution of agency begins with that small discrepancy between a gesture and its visible consequence.
Presentations
I Engineer, Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig, 2019–20. First presentation.
TEMPS D’IMAGES, tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf, 2020. On Equal Terms II, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, 2020.
Intangible Losses, TEI Art Track, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, 2021.
Credits
- Concept
- Charlotte Triebus
- Development
- MIREVI Lab, Hochschule Düsseldorf — Bastian Dewitz, Jochen Feitsch, Calvin Huhn
- Materials and dimensions
- Nine suspended plants, optical tracking system and 1.5 × 1.5 m LED panel. Installation space 5 × 5 × 5 m.
