SPACE INTERVENTIONS

INFO / CREDITS

YEAR: 2024 FORMAT: Projection Mapping DURATION: 8 minutes LOCATION: Osthafen Saarbrücken COMMISSION: Apollon Festival

ARTWORK: Filip Roca SOUNDSCAPE: Zarko Komar

CURATION: Janis Mudrich, Kathy Zorn PRODUCTION: Kulturgut Ost, Pro-Musik GmbH PROJECTIONIST: Dave Thompson FOOTAGE: Kulturgut Ost

DESCRIPTION

Space Interventions is a projection mapping work that uses the industrial facade of the Osthafen building as a surface for geometric abstraction. Minimalist grid structures, checkered patterns and color fields are layered across the architecture, breaking its rigid form into shifting planes of light. The building stops reading as a fixed object and starts behaving as something unstable, caught between construction and dissolution.

The score, rooted in electronic music and club culture, drives the pacing of the visual transformations. Sound and light lock together, so the projections feel less like images placed on a wall and more like pressure applied to a structure. The work treats the building as material to reshape, not a screen to decorate.

Space Interventions projection mapping on the Osthafen building in Saarbrücken, the facade covered in horizontal bands of green, white and orange checkered grid patterns, large crowd watching at night

Low-angle view of Space Interventions at Apollon Festival, bold red, black and green geometric blocks projected across the Osthafen building, dense crowd gathered below with smoke visible in the night air

Close-up of a viewer recording Space Interventions on a phone, the screen showing red and green projected patterns on the building, the blurred facade glowing in the background

Three views of the Osthafen building from across the river at night, Space Interventions projections in red, green and white geometric patterns reflected in the water, trees silhouetted in the foreground