SZ ON SZUM refers to two fundamental human concepts: safety and freedom.
The work takes its impulse from the biblical image of “buzzing copper” — a state of emptiness, resonance and loss of inner presence. The labyrinth becomes a space of passage: an in-between structure in which the audience searches for orientation, contact and an “inside”.
Copper wires form the structure of the labyrinth. The material is used both literally and metaphorically: copper is one of the best conductors of electricity and heat, while also carrying associations of purification, protection and danger.
When electricity runs through copper, the material can become life-threatening. In the installation, this ambivalence becomes a spatial and social metaphor. The labyrinth is made of interwoven paths, relations and blind turns — a structure of uncertainty, protection and risk.
SZ ON SZUM moves along the fragile border between the desire for safety and the need for freedom: between the closed, warm nest and the vulnerable openness of being exposed to others.
Project Information
Artists: k.ada / Ada Kobusiewicz with Christian F. Schiller
Title: SZ ON SZUM
Category: copper labyrinth / sound installation / spatial installation
Materials: copper wires, sound, electricity, light, space
Presented at Galeria EL, Elbląg, Poland