Pipe-Line-Bound, 2024, Detail
Site-specific Installation
In Test Run Mara Kirchberg connects her installations and sculptures with the fragile heating system running through the gallery located in the high-maintenance building and former sculpture and installation department of the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. This is a test run to see how they can enter into dialogue and generate new ways of functioning.
→ Pipe-Line-Bound
heating pipes of the building, circulating heating water,
used car air conditioning pipes,
stainless steel braided hoses, shut-off valves
190x550x280cm
In Pipe-Line-Bound visitors encounter the pipe system that spans the length of the exhibition space, revealed, extended, slowed down and diverted into the gallery eventually flowing back to the current. They are invited to touch the pipe work to feel their warmth. This hacking is an act of identifying a weakness in a system without intensions to fix it but with the desire to embrace its intrinsic workings.
→ Creepers
Pipe-Line-Bound, 2024, Installation view, Uus Rada Gallery, Tallinn
Pipe-Line-Bound, 2024, Detail of the connection to the heating pipes
Pipe-Line-Bound, 2024, Detail of the heating pipes
Creepers, 2024, Installation View, Uus Rada Gallery, Tallinn
→ Creepers
covering grids of the heating system,
castors
dimensions variable
The metal grids that normally cover the heating pipes that run under the gallery are complemented by castors that transform them into Creepers, a name derived from a low-profile tool of the same name that helps a person get in and out of confined spaces, such as the underside of a car.
Creepers, 2024, Detail
Test Run, 2024, Exhibition View, Uus Rada Gallery, Tallinn
→ Blood Bag
used heating water from the heating system of the building,
PE foil, PVC tubes, dripping heads, acrylic glass, wire rope
dimensions variable
The used heating water that was drained off in the process is collected in the Blood Bag - a suspended sculpture that offers a moment of rest for these residues.
Test Run, 2024, Exhibition View, Uus Rada Gallery, Tallinn
Blood Bag, 2024, Installation View, Uus Rada Gallery, Tallinn
Blood Bag, 2024, Detail
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Special thanks to: Marko Odar, Kaido Kruusamets, Taavi Talve, Anu Vahtra, Marge Monko, Gisèle Gonon, Mirjam Varik, Sandra Ernits, Sarah Noonan
Photography: Elo Vahtrik
With the support of: Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Forss OÜ
Site-specific Installation
In Test Run Mara Kirchberg connects her installations and sculptures with the fragile heating system running through the gallery located in the high-maintenance building and former sculpture and installation department of the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. This is a test run to see how they can enter into dialogue and generate new ways of functioning.
→ Pipe-Line-Bound
heating pipes of the building, circulating heating water, used car air conditioning pipes, stainless steel braided hoses, shut-off valves
190x550x280cm
In Pipe-Line-Bound visitors encounter the pipe system that spans the length of the exhibition space, revealed, extended, slowed down and diverted into the gallery eventually flowing back to the current. They are invited to touch the pipe work to feel their warmth. This hacking is an act of identifying a weakness in a system without intensions to fix it but with the desire to embrace its intrinsic workings.
→ Creepers
Pipe-Line-Bound, 2024, Installation view, Uus Rada Gallery, Tallinn
Pipe-Line-Bound, 2024, Detail of the connection to the heating pipes
Pipe-Line-Bound, 2024, Detail of the heating pipes
→ Creepers
covering grids of the heating system, castors
dimensions variable
The metal grids that normally cover the heating pipes that run under the gallery are complemented by castors that transform them into Creepers, a name derived from a low-profile tool of the same name that helps a person get in and out of confined spaces, such as the underside of a car.
Creepers, 2024, Installation View, Uus Rada Gallery, Tallinn
Creepers, 2024, Detail
→ Blood Bag
used heating water from the heating system of the building, PE foil, PVC tubes, dripping heads, acrylic glass, wire rope
dimensions variable
The used heating water that was drained off in the process is collected in the Blood Bag - a suspended sculpture that offers a moment of rest for these residues.
Test Run, 2024, Exhibition View, Uus Rada Gallery, Tallinn
Test Run, 2024, Exhibition View, Uus Rada Gallery, Tallinn
Blood Bag, 2024, Installation View, Uus Rada Gallery, Tallinn
Blood Bag, 2024, Detail
Related articles
Special thanks to Marko Odar, Kaido Kruusamets, Taavi Talve, Anu Vahtra, Marge Monko, Gisèle Gonon, Mirjam Varik, Sandra Ernits, Sarah Noonan
Photography: Elo Vahtrik
With the support of: Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Forss OÜ