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TOOLBOX

Invitation card. 2021. Mock up Toolbox. Image: Thomas Georg Blank, Jonas Müller Ahlheim. 2021. Toolbox Exhibition with Sspatz at OPaf. 2022. Image: Thomas Georg Blank. Toolbox Exhibition with Spatz at Compound Yellow. 2023. Image: Jonas Müller-Ahlheim. Detail installation shot. PoSM 3. Title: Template. Material: UV-print on clear acrylic glass. Dimensions: 29,8 x 13,7 x 0,03 cm. Opaf. 2022. Image: Thomas Georg Blank. PoSM_1. Title: Monitor. _Monitor is part of the abundance of life and space. It supports sensual wholesomeness and eases aftereffects of screen insomnia. Operation: Sensory impressions erode Monitor’s shell. Application: Move Monitor to a place you find sensually intense. Display Monitor there and take a photograph. Print the image out and give it to a friend. _UV-print on clear acrylic glass. Dimensions: 29,8 x 13,7 x 0,03 cm. 2021. Image: Leonid Hrytsak. PoSM_4. Title: Michelin/Hot Air._Hot Air plays with the combination of objects and the emerging connections between them. It cherishes unforeseen relations. Operation: Hot Air performs best on a stage. It buffers against gravity and uplifts any of your ideas coming about. Application: Test humbug and moonshine as inflatable matter. Find surprising arrangements of disregarded and valued stuff in your living room. Image: Leonid Hrytsak.

‘Works of art are strange tools. They have the potential to change perception and our everyday lives. It is exactly there that the contributions for the artistic toolbox will be effective. The special quality of the contributions is that the works are only completed through the active participation of those who receive a toolbox. They are sent via mail and documented online: www.sspatz.org.’
Excerpt of invitation card.

The Toolboxes are mobile exhibition spaces that travel internationally to people’s homes and that are exhibited at local art fairs and in gallery spaces.

Each Toolbox comprises interactive artworks that offer a physical-spatial encounter wit art in times of lockdown, and in the context of domestic space. A manual guides through the Toolbox and proposes how to use the tools.
My contribution to the Toolbox is the Piece of Sophisticated Matter (PoSM).