HEK (Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel)Dreispitz
Installations of light, water and projection plus plotter drawings by Studio Lemercier on the limits technology sets and we cross.
Outside the museum, a grid of 3D-printed modules on nails tilts in the breeze. Wind flow has no motor and no electricity, and it is Studio Lemercier's nod to Sol LeWitt and Vera Molnár.
Inside, the show starts with Edges, a grid of geometric planes, then turns to the grids behind every digital image: data centres, a drone view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine above Salt Lake City and, in Slow Violence, Germany's Hambach lignite mine. Your phone video of the show runs on that copper too. Kunst-mag's Stefan Simon says its strength is breaking the spell of projection: La Montagne looks like a perfect mountain of light and fog, then shows you how it is made.
Come to see how the trick works rather than to be dazzled. It closes on 15 November, with a public tour at 15:00 that day. Tickets are CHF 12 (CHF 8 reduced), entry is free Wednesday to Friday from 17:00 to 18:00, and Thursdays run until 20:00.
Wind flow
Outside the museum, a grid of 3D-printed modules on nails moves with the air, with no motor or electricity, after Sol LeWitt and Vera Molnár.
Color Machine
The closing work: nineteen mirrors from a repurposed solar concentrator blend two coloured lights into nineteen gradients that shift as you walk through the room.
La Montagne
A projected mountain that seems to build itself out of light and fog, and gives itself away as a construction the longer you look.
Data aesthetics, chapter 2: Extraction
A drone view of Bingham Canyon Mine, the copper pit above Salt Lake City, the metal behind the screens.
Slow Violence
Germany's Hambach lignite mine, where the size of the hole and the resources gone for good are the point.
You want pure spectacle: Kunst-mag says the show breaks the spell of projection rather than casting it.
Children up to and including 16 get in free, and with a Familienpass adults pay CHF 5. The building has barrier-free access.