"Puppentheaterburghöhlenzimmer"

„Puppentheaterburghöhlenzimmer“, 2023

 wood, fabric, cardboard 
accompanied with clothes by MARKE (Autumn/Winter 2023/24)
 L:8,55m W:5,40m H:3,25m
 
Installation by Yannic Joel Hohaus Clothing by MARKE (Autumn/Winter 2023/24) 
3D-visualization by Mara Rudnick
 Sound by Robert Eisinger For the third edition of the ‘strike-a-pose - Festival for Art, Fashion, and Style’, the Cologne based brand MARKE, founded by designer Mario Keine in 2021, was invited by THE POOL - Art and Exhibition Space to explore the space of the former swimming pool designed by architect Paul Schneider von Esleben in 1962. As part of the festival, which celebrates the intersection of art and fashion, a comprehensive collaborative work was created for the pool room, involving digital artist Mara Rudnick, stylist and set designer Yannic Joel Hohaus, and sound artist Robert Eisinger. 

Drawing inspiration from MARKE's Autumn/Winter 2023/24 collection, the installation explores the profound influence of childhood experiences on one’s artistic expression.

 Created by Yannic Joel Hohaus, the installation is titled „Puppentheaterburghöhlenzimmer", corresponding to the childlike attempt to name unfamiliar objects with a cumulation of known words. Measuring 5.40m x 8.55m x 3.25m, the installation features an extensive, amorphous structure linking various visual scenes. Carefully curated found objects, ingeniously collaged, create scenographic universes that evoke the joyous exploration and imitation of adult worlds experienced during childhood. These include a children's room, a castle made of stacked chairs, a puppet theater, and a cave made of draped fabric.
 Accompanying the installation are animations by digital artist Mara Rudnick. The Autumn/Winter 2023/24 collection by MARKE was captured through 3D scanning, digitally processed, and transformed into short sequences that appear as fragmentary and diffuse flashbacks to the past, seamlessly blending with the installation's theme of reflection. Adding an extra layer of sensorial enchantment, sound artist Robert Eisinger presents his acoustic work, "f[0-9]{9}", an auditory exploration of true remembrance and associated manipulated memories. Drawing inspiration from the lingering presence of a childhood-used PC, this soundscape emerges from the reassembled fragments of lost, forgotten, and deleted data, forming a digital subconscious. This remaining data, restored and partially repaired by software, is analyzed by a specially created algorithm and transformed into sound. These sonifications are reproduced, subsequently flow into the sound composition as blurred copies of the original and juxtapose the clear sounds of a true past.