Interview “We want to raise awareness of quality of light as a material” Cowboy “At the beginning of the looped video the motifs will be based on the present architecture and display plain abstract geometries. Furthermore these geometries are part of an interplay between light and shadows. In the course of the display the video detaches itself from the building’s geometry, the lines are tilting, buckling like hand painted to the point of expressive structures that remind of graffiti. Thus the display stops to form volumes and begins to add gestures and signs. As a result the light is reinterpreted from a form providing structural elements to a narrative sign and is twisted again culminating in the complete opposite direction: a simple illumination of the building. Within this plain lighting a computer generated cowboy emerges, creating suspense. A shoot fired from his revolver shatters the whole light scene into pieces. Meanwhile in that final moment of collapse, light itself “materializes”. The unlit high rise façade remains - in complete darkness - before the loop starts again”. Special material “We are basically reacting on the urban condition, spatial or social contexts – the result is a comment or a questioning. Normal everyday life in the information era holds a lot of surprises and inspirations, especially if you observe the urban space becoming more and more mediatized. Light is beneath others, like video or sound, a very special material for building up spatial relations, real and simulated, physical or imagined. For us light is equated with the traditional building materials, on a level of perception there’s not so much difference. We like to raise the awareness of the quality of volatile materials.” Being Public “We are surrounded by the city, in which every façade tends to state what is “being public” and what remains private. This time we are modifying one of these statements by applying different interpretations to the façade. We are interested to get in touch with the “city narration” and an appropriate means seems to be to work with these big structures in public space; adding a visible layer that might support or irritate. In a certain way it opens a channel to everyone – not only for culture vultures - without the limitation of an enclosed space like a gallery or a book. Therefore we love to work within the public space”.