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Roswitha
Gobbo
sink
Roswitha / 19. May 2015

interactive room installation
120 min.
2015 | Zurich

sink is a spatial installation consisting of the following elements:

The room installation was created in 7 days and was open to the public for 120 minutes. Everything was allowed to be touched, used or changed.

survivors and the dead is an idea suspended from a rope.

liquid animals is a series of five paintings that are imprints of tea stains or lentil stains. They are titled as follows: This is Elvis!, Gen Golf, 3 water camel, shrunken face, camel.

Traces is a series of marks on the wall made by pressing watercolours that are still wet onto the wall.

Headlines are 7 sentences that stand for the 7 days of sink’s creative phase. They were written on the wall with a black permanent marker.

Bodies is a series of notes taped with painter’s tape to a locked door where there is a table. They include notes on bodies, maggots, mythological monsters, nitroglycerin, films and books, suicide, train timetables and a till receipt.

Context are collected books that were used to implement sink and exhibited in sink. These are as follows: Minificciones – short stories from Latin America, Sticky Monsters – John Kenn Mortensen, The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka, Consumed – David Cronenberg, The Drunken Ship – Arthur Rimbaud, Howl – Allen Ginsberg, Punk Rock – John Robb.

SINK is the main work by sink. The audio installation consists of a 3-channel soundscape of the working process and a radio that emits haunting static. As sink was interactive, there were cassette tapes to play instead of the radio noise.

sink also consisted of a pool of different objects, such as percussion instruments (bongos, castañuelas, eggs, panderetta, washboard), a rain pipe, a hair dryer, a yoga mat, a paint box, writing materials, a camera, a recorder, an MP3 player (for listening to music) and mate. The room was designed so that it looked as if the artist was only just away while she worked.

Made

The body of the monster
the creation of the monster
the noise of the monster
the domination of the monster
the hunger of the monster

the commerce

The monster of the system
the complexity of the system
the perversity of the system
the dictatorship of the system
the deconstruction of the system

the revolution

The system of the body
the deformation of the body
the consumption of the body
the destruction of the body
the absence of the body

the emptiness

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