Ontwerpvoorstel voor Reaktor Potenziale - 2024 - Wenen, Oostenrijk: 

Het BlauweUUrProject is een project dat sinds 2014 deel uitmaakt van mijn artistieke activiteit, en bestaat uit een reeks houten tentoonstellingsruimtes waarin balpentekeningen worden getoond. Deze houten binnenruimtes zorgen voor een filtering van het licht, vergelijkbaar met het 'Blauwe Uur', een fenomeen dat zich 2x per dag afspeelt. Net voor zonsopgang, en na zonsondergang kleurt in een omgeving zonder kunstmatig licht, heel de omgeving blauw, en markeert zo de overgang tussen dag en nacht. Dit natuurfenomeen staat vaak teken voor het vervloeien van het onderbewuste in het bewustzijn, waardoor andere lagen van de werkelijkheid zichtbaar worden. Dit is ook het thema van de reeks balpentekeningen sinds 2011. 

THE BLUE HOUR PROJECT.2024
Concept and goal of the installation: the Blue Hour Phenomenon
The Blue Hour Phenomenon is little known and experienced in our daily world. Although it occurs twice every day when daylight shifts into the night and again when daylight appears at the beginning of dawn, right after sunset and right before sunrise. The whole environment turns blue and I remember when my daughter was young we used to shut down all the lights in the house to experience how the blue colour entered the house through every window. You could literally feel this colour coming inside.
This moment of the day marks the shift between day and night. The shift between two realities you could say. As I studied the world of dreams in a Freudian way I started a series of small blue ball point drawings in relation with my own dreams. In this process trying to build my drawings in a way a dream is developping: without a logical development of the story and the vanishing of a linear time frame. Sometimes litteraly the representation of a recent dream, sometimes following the flow of the specific consciousness activated in a nightly dream. 

The aim of the Blue Hour Project for REAKTOR is to evoke this natural phenomenon by drawings based on nightly dreams, architectural sculpture and sound. 

The integration of Sound
Since in this morning moment of the phenomenon, the blue hour is accompanied by the awakening of birds in an impressive uprising symphony that aswell vanishes at the moment the sun rises above the horizon, this soundscape of birds rising their voices and diminishing is integrated in the installation in an audio loop of about 1 hour. From underneath a wooden indoor space in which the drawings are shown, the sound will emerge into the main hall -Großer Saal- of the REAKTOR site. Therefor, the sound will be spread by 4 different audio boxes which are faced to each angle of the Großer Saal.

The Wooden Indoor Space
The Wooden Indoor Space functions as a Box-in-a-Box and thereby brings an extra filter between the outside/daily world and the inside nightly world of the dream. The wooden space is where the drawings will be shown to the public and diminishes the light to its utmost necessary. 

- Location in the main hall- Großer Saal:
The first thing that catched my eye when I studied the floorplan of the main hall was the angle of the space: It looks like a rectangle form but the angles are not shaped in 90°. The implantation of the wooden indoor box in the floorplan wishes to emphasize this spatial tension. 

- The architecture of the Indoor Space:
Inspired by the disappearing of our daily experience of time and space in nightly dreams, the inside of the wooden space wishes to turn the spectators expectation of spatial perspective upside down.
Like in Russian Orthodox visual arts the perception of perspective is turned inwards so the focal point is centered in the spectator himself and not in an unreachable point at the horizon. 

 Via the link below you will find the sketchup document to orbit the 3D-drawing:
https://app.sketchup.com/share/tc/northAmerica/1nK2xGi5RNM?stoken=PNBt5Y8ZGvdP-7WYJgJjWTGG6QDffd2u4s9HH2vV-omYsOO1WDuHk6IscbLziLBO&source=web