but this room is kept locked for the visitors whereas the other rooms of the apartment are open.
All household devices like lamps, cooker, etc. are still functioning and stay connected with the power sources of their original position using hundreds of meters of extension cables. Thereby the kitchen looses its function and the accessible part of the apartment remains in darkness.
rraum is an independent exhibition space in a private flat in Frankfurt. The starting point of the concept of the exhibition The Black Cat is the fact that in this household an equivalent amount of electricity is consumed as my solar power plant is producing. The title refers to a novel of same denominator by Edgar Allan Poe and to the thought experiment The Schrödinger Cat, which was set up by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger to demonstrate a quantum mechanics paradox.
In both cases the cat is hidden, but through its absence gives a hint to another clandestineness. The installation shows structural and phenomenological analogies to both references. In the exhibition all electric appliances of the household were moved in the room, which originally was intended as the show room,
