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Das Loch im Löffel / Interpositionsapparat

“Das Loch im Löffel” (The hole in the spoon) is a multi­fac­et­ed work that deals with the pro­fes­sion of design. What mo­ti­vates some­one to design some­thing? Where does the drive in the design pro­cess come from?

In this theoretical work, the crea­tive space of de­sign­ers was lo­cated in an in-be­tween – a place be­tween dis­ci­pli­nary bounda­ries. De­ter­mined by sub­jec­tive pre­sup­po­si­tions, the in-be­tween be­comes both a place and a method. Aes­thet­ic ob­jec­tiv­ity is al­ways based on the sub­ject, is always dis­put­able and func­tions as a driv­ing force in design.

The in-between is there­fore not only a sub­jec­tive place, but also func­tions as a method that creates irri­ta­tions and en­ables sur­pris­ing crea­tive pro­cesses. These con­sid­era­tions are re­flected in the design of “The hole in the spoon”. The three best-known design maga­zines in Germany, “Novum”, “Form” and “Design Report”, were used as a car­rier for print­ing the theo­reti­cal text. These maga­zines were taken apart page by page, roughly primed in white and printed with own, theory- and prac­tice-ori­en­tated texts.

The covers of the maga­zines were also over­printed with the title “The hole in the spoon”. The modi­fied pages were then re­as­sem­bled into a maga­zine and bound. The medium of the design maga­zine, a sup­posed car­rier of “ob­jec­tive” opin­ions on design issues, was criti­cally ana­lysed and syn­the­sised into further con­tent.

The theoretical work “The hole in the spoon” re­sulted in an in­stal­la­tion that made the con­tent of the work tan­gible.

The installation “Interpositions­apparat” (Inter­posi­tion appa­ra­tus) dealt visu­ally and acous­ti­cally with the in-be­tween dis­cussed in the theo­reti­cal work and created con­nec­tions as well as irri­ta­tions. The audio instal­lation pro­vided a way of ex­peri­encing the the­matic issues of per­son, posi­tion and indi­vidu­ality. Speakers arranged in a circle played the voices of vari­ous designers who ver­bal­ised their atti­tudes and opin­ions.

The voices of individual designers could only be heard if you went very close to one of the speakers. All voices cul­mi­nated in the centre of the “Inter­posi­tion appa­ra­tus”, so that only a ca­copho­ny of scraps of words and mur­murs could be heard. The vari­ous designers com­mented on each other, their voices over­lapped and it was im­pos­sible to re­cog­nise clear posi­tions. 

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Nadja Bülow, Dirk Kurz

Video:

Christian Söder

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