Jasmin Hantl

2022 - Einstellungsraum e. V.

WANDEMANÖVER in collaboration with programmer Adrian Knauff. As part of the annual program AUTONOM?, the expansive installation shows motifs of a shoemaker's workshop and small cars that move swarm-like on the drawing and slowly disappear on their way to the target point. The cars, which seem to be alive, react to the lines of the drawing using sensors. A Raspberry Pi is connected to the beamer, which calculates the driving behavior in 22 choreographies, by means of a neural network, and thus generates further generations that are randomly optimized versions of their predecessors. The playful handling of the various parameters creates microcosmic theatrical performances. The combination of rigid line scaffolding and moving image as well as the clear motifs pose questions about one's own mobility in urban traffic and invite a controversy between pedestrians, cyclists and users of (self-driving) cars. My interest during the production lies in the question of how we appropriate public space and which means of locomotion play a role in the exploration. The room scent mixture A' 2 gathers the smells of new cars, leather, rubber, burnt plastic, the hollyhock and the formerly stored potatoes in the basement of the exhibition space. //

21.09. - 14.10.22 at Einstellungsraum e. V., Wandsbeker Chaussee 11, 22089 HH - Photos Magnus Meier-Röbke