Ruta Remake
sign system, sound system, cables, light system, computer, theramidi, curtain / 3rd berlin biennial, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin / 2004
“Ruta Remake” defines its own performative space as a perceptual model that joins the grounded symptomatic mechanism of the media to breed it with a new script pattern. As the term “remake” suggests, the work intends to subvert an existing narrative to operate within a further scenario.
The woven linen curtain closes the window light in the space of Martin-Gropius-Bau to supply the underlying condition of the performative machinery that operates with and within the“Ruta Remake”. The curtain, as suppressive institution, as chador, that controls the appearing voices, introduces a work by female workers from a linen weaving factory who join to create a new pattern. The curtain as an element between this reality and other realities reveals the link with the world that is on the other side of the screen.
“Ruta Remake” grows through cables and wires to the ceiling of the space to return as a reading of the cinematic mechanism. The voices that chart the walls of the unfolded notation system perform the polyphonic operation that works through the analysis of the institutional architecture.