“I wanted it to be about the movement of the body as it goes through the exhibition and the enclosure.”
B.Tschumi

In 1990, the Tschumi pavilion designed by Bernard Tschumi was built at the Hereplein as part of the manifestation 'What a wonderful world.' The pavilion is managed by the foundation Tschumipaviljoen, whose scope is to realise art projects inside. The main projects are those in which multimedia is used. Expressions of e-culture are given the chance to be manifested in a public place in the centre of Groningen, in this way being shown to a wide audience. In this context, LAb[au] has been invited to present their kinetic paravant: framework f5x5x3.

‘16n_ ƒ553’ is a sculpture playing through light and kinetics with the architecture of the pavilion of Bernard Tschumi. Like László Moholy-Nagy’s kinetic installations, space is manipulated through light and motion. ‘16n_ ƒ553’ exists of a modular structure of three frames of 2x2m, which each are equipped with 125 LED modules that can open and close and can be enlightened, leading to a play of transparency and reflection.

"In an attempt to supersede the hierarchy of structure over surface, architect Bernard Tschumi used structural glass in his Groninger Museum video gallery, employing tactics of reversal and dynamisation. Inside, the video columns displace the traditional meaning of a column as body into flickering signifiers adrift upon the gallery's night surface. This project is seminal in a move toward hypersurfaces, in particular, through the way in which it reconfigures traditional architectural assumptions.." Stephan Perella: a hyersurface theory