Soft Interventions

Hannes Priesch with Herta Kramer-Priesch

Image Credits

Location

Kunsthaus Graz, Im gesamten Kunsthaus

Show all

About the
Project

Barrier tapes are used to section areas off from one another and to control access. Hannes Priesch and Herta Kramer-Priesch were commissioned to explore the topic of barriers, and in particular accessibility and inaccessibility both in the foyer and throughout the building.


Further information

Venue: foyer and throughout the building
 

Barrier tapes

  • With a wry touch they invoke and transform street signs, industrial barrier fencing, prohibition signs: Dog chains with spikes, usually intended to intimidate, lose their function and hence their power to frighten us.
     
  • A crowd barrier becomes a cartoon-like woven fence in gleaming blue, the textile signs take a playful approach to prohibitions, mixing up meanings such as “Warning, closed! Dog bites!”


 

Summary: 
Militant seeming barriers become absurd sculptural objects made of unusual materials whose tactile quality actually encourages us to touch them.