Space/Time/Resonance 2022 

”How geopolitical caesuras are written down in biographical narratives...”

Space Biographies – 2016–2022 (Variation I)

Animation, double time graphs (diagram), based on conversations with A.A., Rasha Hilwi, Matthias Reinhold, Christine Rücker, Erwin Schaar, K.H. Stauffer and Helga Zagurski.

Simone Rueß conducts space biography conversations with middle-aged participants and people suffering from dementia. Diagrams with a historical timeline and a narrative timeline summarize their individual statements. In this way, weightings of certain biographical data become visible in relation to memory capacity. Superpositions and condensations reveal how certain experiences of respondents, influenced by geopolitical caesuras, acquire more frequented resonance.

Light recording [micro-light installation] 

The digital light cone translates the phenomenon of filtering perceptions onto the screen (as a magnified sensor). On the 18th of January, 2022, for the duration of eight hours, daylight was recorded on a sheet of paper with a small funnel in a darkened room on a micro scale while appearing on a monitor via a webcam. 

Sound piece by Catherine Lamb 

Filtered ambient sounds are the basis of the piece inter sum (2019). Taking into account the various transitions of acoustic perception between indoors and outdoors, Lamb applies a resonance band-pass filter to her ambient field with her synthesizer instrument, thus reflecting the constantly fluctuating field of attention.

Biography

Rueß is a visual artist. She creates multimedia artworks such as installations, animations and objects. An important element of her practice is interdisciplinary cooperation with different artists.  Her work deals with the problem of urban space in the context of its social impact. She has developed a special method, based on narrative interviews with people from different places in the world. The artist uses the method to question: How do we individually perceive both our own and common environment? Can there be something like a personal space biography? For this, Rueß transfers her collected biographies into drawings. 

Since 2019, she has also been exploring the perception of people with dementia on  a visual-practical level, analyzing the resonances between past and present. Simone Rueß lives and works in Berlin. 

Space/Time/Resonance 2022 

”How geopolitical caesuras are written down in biographical narratives...”

Space Biographies – 2016–2022 (Variation I)

Animation, double time graphs (diagram), based on conversations with A.A., Rasha Hilwi, Matthias Reinhold, Christine Rücker, Erwin Schaar, K.H. Stauffer and Helga Zagurski.

Simone Rueß conducts space biography conversations with middle-aged participants and people suffering from dementia. Diagrams with a historical timeline and a narrative timeline summarize their individual statements. In this way, weightings of certain biographical data become visible in relation to memory capacity. Superpositions and condensations reveal how certain experiences of respondents, influenced by geopolitical caesuras, acquire more frequented resonance.

Light recording [micro-light installation] 

The digital light cone translates the phenomenon of filtering perceptions onto the screen (as a magnified sensor). On the 18th of January, 2022, for the duration of eight hours, daylight was recorded on a sheet of paper with a small funnel in a darkened room on a micro scale while appearing on a monitor via a webcam. 

Sound piece by Catherine Lamb 

Filtered ambient sounds are the basis of the piece inter sum (2019). Taking into account the various transitions of acoustic perception between indoors and outdoors, Lamb applies a resonance band-pass filter to her ambient field with her synthesizer instrument, thus reflecting the constantly fluctuating field of attention.

Biography

Rueß is a visual artist. She creates multimedia artworks such as installations, animations and objects. An important element of her practice is interdisciplinary cooperation with different artists.  Her work deals with the problem of urban space in the context of its social impact. She has developed a special method, based on narrative interviews with people from different places in the world. The artist uses the method to question: How do we individually perceive both our own and common environment? Can there be something like a personal space biography? For this, Rueß transfers her collected biographies into drawings. 

Since 2019, she has also been exploring the perception of people with dementia on  a visual-practical level, analyzing the resonances between past and present. Simone Rueß lives and works in Berlin.