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Project
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Alexander Kluge presented at Deutsche Kinemathek his extensive research into the history of human civilisation – in short, how the whole disaster that is humanity had already taken shape in the primordial mud. He wished for the exhibtion to be an ‘enchanted site’.

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Neon lights

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Curd

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Monitor

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Gaffer-Tape

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Booklet

laser print

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Our work for this exhibition went beyond the usual notion of a solution achieved through graphic design. Although the client talked us out of using a fog machine, they did give us the freedom to write on the glass walls of the Kinemathek with quark (curd). Using this inexpensive ‘primordial sludge’, we created a wayfinding system (cave paintings made with quark from Edeka supermarket). Together with the ‘broken’, flickering neon tubes and monitors stored in the janitor’s room, neon gaffer’s tape, and film stills printed out in the office, we created islands within the building to guide visitors in the right direction.

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Sign

made from slate that is millions of years old

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In the end, we put the exhibition together mainly using what we already had, adding just a few items: genuine slate that is millions of years old, school blackboards and blackboard paint, school chalk and chalk markers.

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Set design
Part 1

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Part 2

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Part 3

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Part 4

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Part 5

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Set design
Part 6

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Part 7

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Part 8

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Part 9

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Part 10

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Part 11

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Set design
with lava lightening
and Alexander Kluge

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Exhibition information

Co-creator:
Veronika de Haas
Thanks:
Franziska Rieder