Ein Haus, ein Pool

"Ein Haus, ein Pool" (one house, one pool) is an installation by Unit 404. It was shown at Keller III, contextualized by the "89. Herbstausstellung" of the Kunstverein Hannover, 2021, curated by Sergej Harutoonian.

Concept

EIN HAUS, EIN POOL (One House, One Pool)

PVC pool, submersible pump, garden hose adapter, beamer, mobile router, Rasberry Pi, Python Script, Processing Script 2021

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Exhibition view at 89. Herbstausstellung Kunstverein Hannover at Keller Drei︎︎︎ Photography: Leona Ohsiek, Johanna Spieker

The installation “Ein Haus, ein Pool” (One House, One Pool) uses a water cycle to form a cloud of fog onto which the speculative stock market values of water (represented by the Global Water Index) are projected in real time. The immanent consumption of resources, water, electricity and plastic is material and content of the installation, while the pseudo-holography serves as a symbol of promise of technological innovation. Resources are becoming increasingly scarce and calls for a responsible use of raw materials are growing louder. Although water is a human right, its increasing privatization is becoming a particularly macabre part of this problem. The work is conceived as a mobile unit. It is meant to accompany and depict the change of time, regardless of how beautiful or ominous it may be.

Media

A collection of media regarding the project

Comments

"A house, a pool" is a work we conceived earlier this year, in the end it's about the double function of future: as a hopeful of a better future but also as a kind of dystopian idea.The anchor point to our own environment was the speculation with the price of water. What you see in the work is a PVC pool for the garden, into which the current stock prices are projected from the S&P Global Water Index and these create a hologram. ( The S&P Global Water Index is a stock market index that unites companies speculating in water). The idea of the hologram refers to speculative elements from science fiction movies like Star Wars, i.e. seeing images of the future that never quite made it into our lives. We then came to water via technology and dealt with the element as a projection surface.
[Jonas Meyburg, excerpt from the artist talk for the fall exhibition at Kunstverein Hannover 21]

Legacy Text and Scrapped Material