Wolfgang Rang
Jan Jacob Hofmann
Ida Kaufmann & Laurin Thomas
BlauRaum is a light installation that bathes the Fahrgasse in Frankfurt in blue light. Loosely based on Novalis (1772-1801) - "giving the ordinary an unusual appearance, transforming the banal into a mystery”- the installation makes the hidden perceptible as a sensory experience by merging sensory perception, recognition and the fantastic.
BlauRaum = Blue Room = BlueLight + BlueSound + BlueDance
BlueLight
Ultra-violet light produces air pregnant with blue, recharging in blue the barcode “Fahrgasse Frankfurt” as a light drawing – associating clear cornflower blue, the colour of romanticism
BlueSound
An intangible humming in the air of electronically-generated sounds, associating blue, bright, dreamlike, eternally unfinished sound.
BlueDance
Every 30 minutes, dancers perform a 10-minute choreography among the Luminale visitors, associating: Blue dances!
Fixed speakers mounted on the streetlamps and mobile speakers worn by the performers moving through the Fahrgasse reveal layers and densities of BlueSound. When the performers approach each other, the sound space dances – sound vibrating as a duet, quartet, a BlueSpace Orchestra.
The art galleries, shops, bars and restaurants in the Fahrgasse are part of the BlueSound choreography, inviting visitors into their own BlueSpace.
BlauRaum is a light work consisting of blue dancing street space, blue dancing interiors and blue dancing Luminale visitors.
Blue dances Space
Space dances Sound
Sound dances Blue
1981 Co-founder of Berghof Landes Rang architectural office. 1996 Atelier Wolfgang Rang. Professorship Frankfurt UAS. Exhibitions and awards in Germany and abroad.
Composer and architect in Frankfurt. Since 2000, worked on the spatial sound project "Sonic Architecture". Performances and awards in Germany and abroad.
Ida Kaufmann and Laurin Thomas studied contemporary and classical dance at the HfMDK Frankfurt. 2019 founded "Co-Op Dance Company".
Lichtkunst Outdoor
The Project is supported from:
Kunst-Galerien, Läden, Restaurants, Bars der Fahrgasse