from German group Bilderwerfer7 hosts -- with very different backgrounds except for the city they live in -- stage 7 interventions in a public space in the city. Through the use of a Head Room home box, a box covering their heads yet leaving their bodies visible, they invite one person for a face to face conversation.
This home box, designed by architect Stephane Derveaux, is not just a box, but a reproduction of the hosts’ favourite room in their own houses. The Head Room, from this perspective, balances on the edge between so called private and public space.
The hosts themselves -- an artist, a shopkeeper, a scholar, a worker -- decide who to invite. The conversations they engage in are not interviews. There are no specific questions that need to be answered. It is in the first place about the actual experience of being in the Head Room, its performative aspect, the feelings and reflections it brings about. The Head Room home boxes, the hosts and their conversations are brought back to the project’s base camp -- the Head Room of the project -- located at the platform China studio in the 798 factory. Every box adds another “room” to the installation that is being created as the interventions proceed.
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This piece might as well have been a project born out of our class discussions and brainstorming! It is a body extension that creates a space intimate enough to be tentatively called "private," and at the same time it affects the outer space, the "public" space. From this image, it appears that the host and the participant are engaging in the "private" Head Room in the middle of an intersection: a breach of propriety and an invasion of private/public space. There is also movement involved, since the Head Room is mobilized by the leg power of the host and the participant.
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