Carmen E. Kreis – circulaziun
April 23th to May 2nd 2010



Video work circulaziun from Carmen E. Kreis in Projektraum Bollag

The video work circulaziun was created in 2009 and represents a point of departure for the Basel artist Carmen E. Kreis. The work
makes it possible to take a close look at an endangered species, the bee. Image and sound material were recorded during resi-
dences in Nairs-Scuol and Neuchâtel. That is why experts can even differentiate between the two different kinds of bees. But that
is not what this work is about. Only image editing, tone, colour and rhythm have been added to the recorded material, in order to
shape it into a gripping, urgent work. And yet, it seems as if the components had been torn apart, interrupted; as if movement and
sound were pulling in different directions. The dynamism thus created admits no look to the horizon; the emphasis is first on the
people and then, on their loneliness. Over it all, the sound and its antipode, silence, hover.

An ideal place: Projektraum Bollag / raum19,6m³

Circulaziun will be seen for the next ten days in the Bollag project room and in raum19,6m³. With this mobile showroom,
Carmen E. Kreis has found an ideal place for her work, which will exist only for this exhibition in this particular constellation.
The studio house Bollag's new building with its matching project space has been enlarged by the mobile showroom raum19,6m³.
This could also in itself be a bee cart, since it resembles an old construction site caravan. In this setting, circulaziun represents
the artist's starting point, while raum19,6m³ serves as a mobile projection space that gives her work a sense of meaning and
authenticity.

Text (in German): Rafael J. Lutter, February 2010



raum19,6m³
A mobile shoowroom
www.raum19-6m3.info