Triple Jump
(Interactive) Installation
First installation in an ongoing line of projects and works starting 1996, addressing human aspects within the harsh realities of ’nation states’ with a focus on identity, borders, power structures and geopolitical aspects in relation to (city) landscape. It focused specifically on the events in Srebrenica and the shifting identity questions following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.
The installation formed a spatial landscape connecting inside and outside, creating both visible and audible interaction. It consisted of various objects that held an aura of lost sentimental value: music records with folk songs, Lenin books with bullet holes, a trashed door, polaroid photographs, a toy sheep and a painting from a second‑hand shop of the Mostar bridge, which had been destroyed three years earlier during the war in former Yugoslavia. Together they connected the entire exhibition space and the works of the other participants I had invited.
Within this landscape, a small installation built around a record player activated spotlights lying on a plate. The lights responded to the soft sounds of the city entering the space through a speaker. Outside, three objects in a small showcase attached to the building were illuminated by the sound produced inside. This created a continuous exchange between interior and exterior, between personal relics and geopolitical reality.