Shapes, Dimensions, Possibilities

Casco presents you with 'Shapes, Dimensions, Possibilities', a project by Mirjam Thomann who will create a site-specific installation at Casco that will reach beyond Casco's facade. With this installation, the artist refers to and extrapolates from Casco’s specific nature, as well as to a significant architecture in the urban environment of its space. Thoman will also stay at the Casco House until 4 December 2009 whereby she will contribute to Casco’s ongoing project ‘User’s Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution’.

For her mode of inquiry, Thomann appropriates and recomposes existing elements of architectural or institutional spaces into constructions with moveable surfaces that are mimetic to their surroundings. Her spatial interventions generate an area of new perception and social interaction between the visitors and their environment.

For this project, Thomann takes up and extends the grid structure of Casco's interior architecture called 'Shack and Fence', designed by ifau and Jesko Fezer. This bright colored wooden structure makes the Casco space distinctive from a typical white cube, which in turn signifies Casco's modus operandi.

Thomann intends to make the social meanings and possibilities that this spatial structure opens up more sensible by extending it to reach even the outside and by adding a series of moveable panels, shaped after the representative modes of the Rietveld-Schröderhuis; a singular architecture space in Utrecht marked by its openness and flexibility.

Drawing a certain analogy and conflict between the space of Casco and the representative status of Rietveld-Schröderhuis, Thomann's installation questions the reception, representation and mediation of the space, while becoming itself an open model for incidental and unexpected perceptions and dialogue to happen.