DUNST

Once you have noticed it, you see it almost everywhere: in the shower, in the park at nightfall and on cold days right under your nose. Haze veils and is in transition. From a fleeting little cloud to a thick wall of fog, over greasy, heavy smells, haze knows how to move between structures and elements and how to get stuck here and there.
DUNST (engl. haze) at Kesselhaus Bamberg presents a site-specific installation that engages with the original function of the space. Two large vertical boilers were once used to generate steam for the heating and the steam laundry of the former hospital. Taking the imposing architecture as a starting point, which only hints at the former use of the space, textile containers take up the space left by the missing boilers. Deposits can be found not only on the walls and old fittings, but also on the net structures. Dyed puddles of water remain fluid forms and leave behind imprints and after-images of once united materials. As they dry, the heavy pigments seep into the floor and coat the base, which is now installed in the center of the room. 
Kesselhaus, right next to the former hospital's pathology and laundry departments, was a source of energy and with that a space of transition between bodies, matter, hygienic purity, animated warmth and repelled coldness. In DUNST, transparencies and energy exchange between permeable and impermeable, old and new materials are negotiated.
The inserted bodies are constructed flexibly, mobile and stretchable. They desire, assert themselves, but are not stuck in one position. They can offer shelter, between costume and capsule, sleeping bag and canopy. Through them, security, mutual dependencies, cross-species physicality and the questionable desire to feel “equipped” are transported.