Venice Biennale 2008 - Siegrun Appelt: 64 KW
Wastefulness is permitted: An exemplary light installation in the entrance area of the German Pavilion.
Siegrun Appelt’s light installation 64 kW serves as a visual exclamation point for a more conscious handling of energy resources. The installation, located in the entrance to the German Pavilion in Venice, shines with four times the intensity of the sun on a cloudless day. The shining light and the heat it generates make traversing the installation a truly physical experience; exhibition visitors can live the connection between energy use and waste. The work calls on visitors to save energy and then symbolically donate that energy to the 64 kW Negawatt Power Plant. The first energy donator is the city of Berlin. Once the Biennale begins, the illumination at the Brandenburg Gate will be turned on and off over the course of several days according to a choreography designed by Appelt herself. This light-update of Berlin’s most prominent emblem will serve as a prime example of the fact that saving energy needn’t only mean abnegation, but also the creation of a surplus.
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