Yuri Kalendarev

Project for Kilian. Emerging air

Air at the surface. Model

1995

Nature of project:  Anti-monument.

Materials:  Light, Air, Sound, Water.

Situation:  Year 1995. Baltic Sea, Germany. Bay of the city of Kiel.

Elements:  

1.  Blue underwater pulsating circle of light in the Bay of Kiel, near the ruins of Kilian, (visible from the city).

2.  Appearing and disappearing light-projected names of all the battle-ships, U-boats, planes, prisoners, victims etc. - all participants in the drama of Kilian.

Sound.

3.  Historically precise location of Friedrich Nicolai’s printing works, lit by blue light on the other side of the Bay, in the city of Kiel.

Sound.