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  • ongoing
    exhibition

    MAK Design Lab at the Museum of applied Arts in Vienna. Within the permanent Design exhibition one can find a few of our projects like 'the idea of a tree', 'limited moths' or 'LeveL.

    MAK Design Lab

  • 15.September 2023 - 21. July 2024
    exhibition

    HEIMATEN. An exhibition and survey and an attempt to break with conventional takes on Heimat. the exhibition was shown at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G) in 2022. Our specially commissioned piece 'riparian cloud' is now also on show in Molfsee.

    Freilichtmuseum Molfsee

  • 15.3.2024 – 13.10.2024
    exhibition, new project

    "Water Pressure - Designing for the future" an exhibition of the MK&G Hamburg and Jane Withers Studio – looks at the water crisis from a global perspective. We were commissioned to come up with an installation celebrating water. The result "vital rain" is part of the exhibition and will stay permanently in the museums yard.
    more soon

    MKG Hamburg - Water Pressure

plural & spannungsfeld

two interactive installations about social interconnections

  • year 2019

  • category Kinetic & Interactive Installations

  • commissioned by

    Futurium

For the newly established museum Futurium in Berlin, mischer’traxler studio was asked to develop two kinetic projects that deal about interconnectivity within our social environments. Inspired by woven networks that perfectly represent how each and everyone is indirectly connected with everyone else, both realized projects utilize real thread to make these connections moveable and visible.

Whilst the bigger project plural visualizes democratic structures and various roles an individual can play in social structures, the wall installation spannungsfeld shows the connected system between the priorities of mankind, nature and technology. Both project mainly consist of motors that gently move an elastic string and thus, slightly but apparent, change the taut lines.

detail plural of the network made out elastic thread

plural

whilst the single elements rise up, the cords strech and constantly change the appearance of the network

plural works through the actions of the audience. 
The visitors own (inter)actions become immediately visible as the entire network changes – the longer one interacts with the installation, the bigger is their impact is on the network
Specific terms, such as equality, dominance, empowerment and more, on the frame and as a choreographed movement of the installation give a glimpse on what role we can assume in a society and how different the possibilities are.

"Living in a democratic society means that processes result from the interaction of many. These actions are connected like a network, which can also lead to inequalities: How do we negotiate and whose opinion prevails?"

excerpt from exhibition discription at Futurium

the full installation plural in the "house of futures"

some preset terms to discover the dynamics of the network —
for example exclusion


equality


and dominance

spannungsfeld

white cords represent humans, blue cords technology and green represent nature

spannungsfeld shows the interconnectivity between
humans, technology and nature.

work in progress view inside plural

  • material

    camera, mdf lacquered, steel lacquered, custom made circuit boards, electronics,  eloxated aluminium rods, elastic cord, plastic

  • dimensions

    plural:
    approx. ø 200 cm x 81 cm

    spannungsfeld:
    approx. 3,40 x 2 m

  • team

    Katharina Mischer, Thomas Traxler, Elisa Polner, Stephan Jäger, Johannes Nortmann

  • electro-technical development

    Simon Laburda (DKIA)