In early June 2021 a competition entry was submitted to the art-for-architecture competition for the ZMW (Centre for Materials Science and Materials Engineering) and for the ZET (Centre for Energy Technology) at the University of Bayreuth. For two different art locations, objects were proposed that correspond in respect of form and colour, yet are clearly distinguishable from one another.
“Erforschen” (“Investigating”) is the guiding theme for two walk-through art objects that convey a sensual experience: to penetrate an object, a structure and thus a field of knowledge. Something that appears confusing from outside and creates a new impression from every new angle, is experienced from inside as order, as a system of individual perceptions and thus as a sum of different findings.
The objects, eight metres tall and made from painted metal rods, serve the purpose of relaxation. The act of entering is experienced as taking a walk, and offers an infinitely varied number of approaches. Object A with its charge of energy represents the ZET and is suitable for a place on the Anger Süd, the southern open space. Object B with the interpenetration of two masses stands for the ZMW and is suitable for a position in the Innenhof Süd (south courtyard).