The Italian sound artist Paolo Piscitelli uses his steady feel for spatial settings to connect conceptual approaches and transmedial work forms with concrete places. For his “Unpacking” installation, he has constructed partially impenetrable walls made of 1,800 book boxes in the interior rings of the water reservoir. The spatial composition of the boxes introduces linear elements in the round space, altering the spatial dynamic through the individual rings of the water reservoir. Many a path becomes a cul-de-sac. The visitor is forced to return the same way he came.
Video films projected onto the walls show writing hands. Accompanied by the incessant ticking of a clock, people jot down books they remember. Book titles are recorded – in the manner in which they have been become embedded in their memories. In “Unpacking”, the audience becomes witness and quiet associate to a process. The installation challenges the individual to become preoccupied with his own self and inner “accumulations”.