Antenna, key wristbands, paint, tracker, epoxy
250 x 150 mm, 72 pieces
Roaming is easy to overlook and yet it is everywhere. Outdoor pool visitors wear the small works of art on their wrists carrying them around the public pool. Niclas Riepshoff has attached specially developed ‘trackers’ to the key bracelets of the locker system. A bulky antenna protrudes from the pool-blue lockers, although it remains unclear whether and what it is recording. The title Roaming describes both a travelling movement and the sending and receiving of data. The small pendants resemble tracking devices that are implanted in fish to study their behaviour in the water, or the inside of a smartwatch that could record our swimming performance. Riepshoff's work is a critical and humorous reference to the increasing surveillance of public space and our own bodies. What influence does the feeling of being tracked have on (swarm) behaviour in the swimming pool - and how do we perceive a work of art in which we ourselves become the display?
About the Artist
Niclas Riepshoff (he|him), born in 1992 in Bremen (DE), lives and works in Berlin (DE) and Zurich (CH). Based on his own experiences as well as site- and context-specific research, he explores contemporary issues from a queer perspective. His works - including sculpture, installation, performance and drawing - have been presented at Kunsthalle Mannheim (Mannheim, DE), Harburger Kunstverein (Hamburg, DE) and Belvedere 21 (Vienna, AT), among others. Together with Tanja Nis-Hansen, he is working on the collaborative performance project CONNY.
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