To enter the multimedia installation Labskaus oder der alte Scharoun in seinem Elend ('Labskaus or The Old Scharoun in his Misery,' 2016) is to immerse oneself in John Bock's artistic field-space. The artist creates hybrid-genre works that play with immersive effects and can be understood as experimental arrangements meant to reveal and dissolve minimax orders. The installation consists of green screens that form a basic architectural structure, a film projection and numerous sculptural objects, with an associative plot-web of links, contradictions, and irritations that ties various elements together. While sculptural objects in the form of small, architectural models evoke the real space of an architecture firm, they are also archived props from the film playing in parallel. In this respect, the installation represents the actual film set while simultaneously contrasting the film as a real space, seemingly dissolving the boundaries between film-fiction and object-reality. The individual components do not fuse to form a homogeneous, narrative structure, but expand or transform one other. They serve as referential set components that allow viewers to engage with architect Hans Scharoun and his architectural thinking.
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