August 2018

in collaboration with the Kunstverein Hannover

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Chapter Two takes place on the occasion of the 88th autumn exhibition at the Arena Suites Hotel in downtown Hanover. ROOMS TO LET move into a room in their own city. The hotel room becomes a studio, storehouse for materials, and exhibition space.

 

ROOMS TO LET install new works as well as items brought along from Chapter One / Travel Mongolian Guesthouse: everyday objects, sculptures, videos. The interventions of the artists encounter the simultaneously personal and impersonal hotel atmosphere of gray granite floor, artificial leather, and turquoise-glazed pressboard furniture.

 

Large-format photographs of hairballs hang above a sofa covered in beige artificial leather; two Pferdetrensen: horse bridles have been placed on double pillows beneath pictures of cherry blossoms from IKEA. In the hotel television set, Mongolian goats bleat, suckle, sneeze – all the while observed by two silent hotel-room fans.

 

The collaboration with Godo Bayartsetseg Dashdondov, which already began in Ulaanbaatar, is continued; a sound-piece by the artist may be heard from the desk cabinet of the hotel room. In addition to noises from the street and goat-bleating from the hotel television set, a poem by the artist may be heard in the Mongolian language. A further level of sound is added temporarily: the musician Raphael Vanoli makes reference to the furniture music of Erik Satie and, during a concert, weaves his experimental, corporeal electronic-sound into the space.