Installation Impakt festival 2002 Utrecht
In Utrecht at the annual Impakt festival in 2002, we made our first real darkroom. Darkrooms are spaces that are completely painted with phosphorescent paint, both walls, floor and ceiling. There are also very bright lights that are on for one minute and then off for another. Once your eyes are a bit accustomed to the scorching white light in the white space, it suddenly goes off and the walls, floor and ceiling begin to glow softly, with shadows still visible as shadows for a moment.
But perhaps Edo Dijksterhuis in the NRC best describes the experience he had in Utrecht:
"..... Actually, there is only one work that really makes Impakt visitors think about all the madness this festival is about: Jasper de Haan's Darkroom. It is a completely fluorescent yellow painted room where a kind of vapour seems to hang. Depth is impossible to estimate, the boundary between wall and floor is diffuse. Just when your eyes start to get used to this monochrome universe, the light intensity changes and everything is in question again. No screen is involved in this simple but highly reflective work
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Jasper de Haan architects
See also:
-"Bush in Teletubbieland" by Edo dijksterhuis in the NRC (63.22 KB)