GRAVITY



“Gravity” is a series of 5 drawings and a model which, like
architect’s models and drawings, are ultimately meant to be realized in full
scale, a 20x30 meter stage mounted on a
5m scaffolding structure. This drawing is showing a cross section of 20m width
of the stage. It would be a travelling installation that can be used as a
scenography for performance arts. On this stage the performers and the public mix.
They all access the stage through steps and exit through the hole in the center
that functions as a slide. Some of them might even have rollerblades and will
turn around the earth like visiting asteroids or comets.











The distortion of the stage is representing gravity. Gravity
according to Einstein’s theory of relativity is the distortion of the field of
space-time. This means the mass of a planet or a star is bending the space-time
fabric in the same way a bowling ball would bend an elastic trampoline. When a
tennis-ball is thrown on this stage it will turn in ellipses around the center
in exactly the same way the earth turns around the sun, or the moon around the
earth. The only difference is, that this occurs in space in 3 dimensions
instead of just 2.







This stage is a place for education about physics and space, but it is also a place for celebration and even ritual. Through performances and storytelling, we learn about the universe we are a part of and the physical laws that we are an extension of. The story of the cosmos is a story about us. As in an initiation ritual we are invited to dive in the hole in the center to experience a kind of “second birth” or cosmic baptism: We are children of the universe.








