RAUMZEITPIRATEN: Physarum
interactive installation
façade of the Križevniška Church // until 14 June
OPENING: Friday, 23 May, at 9:30 p.m.

The German art collective, which often explores various natural processes with the help of modern technology in its work, is presenting an interactive installation on tour in Ljubljana, inspired by the organic growth of mould called Physarum polycephalum. In nature, it exists as a single-celled organism that can manifest itself in extremely complex ways, which is why it is also very interesting for scientific study. RaumZeitPiraten’s project thematises the extraordinary growth ability of this mould: they translated its growth strategy into a machine language and applied it in the field of the visual by means of projected light. The façade of the Križevnička Church has been equipped with several sensors that monitor the movement of passers-by or general environmental conditions at the microlocation. The data acquired in such a way is translated in real time into light trails that, accompanied by sound, grow on the object as a monumental organic structure.

RAUMZEITPIRATEN is an audio-visual, space- and time-altering art collective of authors Tobias Daemgen, Jan Ehlen and Moritz Ellerich. Since 2007, they have been active as an art group, combining Einstein’s inspiring concept of four-dimensional Raumzeit (space–time) in their name, and as pirates they feel obliged to play freely with these concepts outside the traditional frameworks of production. With their location-specific and performative installations, they create transient models of imperfect counter-worlds, whilst with their specially designed optic-acoustic instruments, they abuse and rework ancient and modern audio-visual technologies and build heterogeneous, organic and improvised light-sound architectures on the border between science and fiction.

Co-production: Ljubljana Festival, PiNA