Introduction
Blind Volumes is a site-specifc installation for Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, responding to the openly accessible public setting of the museum’s rotunda. Combining film and sculptural episodes, inside the rotunda, an expansive, geometrically intricate steel construction consisting of 80 serial framework elements has been erected. The installation in Frankfurt was twelve meters tall and nearly filled the entire lobby of the Schirn.
The framework serves as the stage for a dynamic choreography combining visual imagery, light, and sound: besides the sculptural works One Way Out (2009) and Conductor (2014), and the 16mm film work Above the Plate and Receiver (2016), it makes up a vertical stage for the light and sound installation Hear, There, Where the Echoes Are (2016), including 70mm and 16mm film projections, which has been activated by a live performance with percussionist Chad Taylor.