Our world consists largely out of embedded, encapsulated machines. One uses these 'black boxes' partially more self-evident than most simple tools like pencil or hammer.

The complexity of technological development, the machinery and electronics used in everyday devices is not translated into our perception. The system behind, the creation, conditions and user-optimization is in no way transparent. This thread runs through developments and inventions which should serve us with the help of complex units which we shall be able to use easy and effective.

The installation Living Kitchen – Happy End of the 21st Century offers the visitor opportunity to explore his/her own everyday world which is implemented in the ideas of automation and duty. A moment of sensual and aesthetic reception of an almost normal situation arises.

A standard formatted kitchen is equipped with ubiquitous devices and tools – furniture, kitchen devices, accessories and tools. All areas and devices function until a certain degree, however, their function is not created by use, it is subject of their own dynamic. The kitchen furniture and the household objects take on a life of their own; a course of poetic kinetic and sound action arises which then increasingly dissolve and run into an escalating independence. Some of the elements start their life as an orchestra out of kitchen-devices, tools and trunks, chairs and tables jump in rhythm. Part by part the objects calmly slow down, some still give voice, the light closes down.