‘ berlin-based architect anna kostreva has created an interactive installation that pushes the boundaries of viewing experiential art. over six thousand soft vertical strings fill the gallery as an explicit spatial volume where gradients of light, color, and mass emphasize existing thresholds of transition in the room. as a counter statement to purely visual artwork, the piece was designed to be the setting of a dance party at the wand project space in berlin to provoke people to play and intervene in their surroundings, colliding in a haptic field and merge gesture with material. the work incorporates the energy provided by people as a source of entropy, tracing individual actions as organized subsystems. it is a destructible environment and the overall effect is an increase in disorder within the piece over time.

anna kostreva: broken string kilometers installation view towards the ceiling

anna kostreva: broken string kilometers installation the threshold into the volume of string

anna kostreva: broken string kilometers installation over fifteen kilometers and six thousand vertical strings fill the space

anna kostreva: broken string kilometers installation the colors change across the length of the room

anna kostreva: broken string kilometers installation string cut and fallen from the volume

anna kostreva: broken string kilometers installation the installation was made as the setting for a dance party

anna kostreva: broken string kilometers installation people made interventions

anna kostreva: broken string kilometers installation view of the installation after the dance party

anna kostreva: broken string kilometers installation the material holds the trace of the movements of the people that were there

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