Lightning Blue

Tilman Küntzel’s fountain installation establishes a visual and acoustic link between the urban hinterland and the inner city. The artist used sound and visual recordings of the hydroelectric station located on the river Ruhr to redesign an existing urban fountain. The latter was restored and a water groove was added that leads to a cylindrical outlet covered by a glass pane. The outlet contains several loudspeakers and a video beamer projecting the images of water recorded at the Fröndenberg hydroelectric power station on the underside of the glass. The loudspeakers play sounds of flowing from the station.
The fountain was realised as part of the project “Hellweg – ein Lichtweg” (Hellweg – A Path of Light), jointly organised by the municipalities of the Hellweg region, Bergkamen, Fröndenberg, Kamen and Lippstadt, and supported by the state of NRW.

More on this:
www.hellweg-ein-lichtweg.de

www.licht-ruhr2010.de

www.tkuentzel.de

Tilman Küntzel

1959
geboren in Jungenheim; lebt in Berlin.
1985-1990
Studium der Freien Kunst an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg bei Claus Böhmler und Ernst Mitzka.
1985-1986
Gastseminare an der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Hamburg.
1992-1993
Studium Systematische Musikwissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg.
1994-1998
Lehrauftrag an der Fachhochschule Nordostniedersachsen in Lüneburg Bereich Sozialpädagogik/ visuelle Kommunikation: Klang und Farbe - Klangskulpturen - Partituren - Improvisation auf Geräuscherzeugern.
2007
Gastdozentur an der Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) für "Klangkunst".
Quelle:
www.tkuentzel.de
Images:
photos © Thorsten Arendt
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Location
Fröndenberg
Winschotener Platz / Im Stift 12 (pedestrian zone in front of the Sparkasse), 58730 Fröndenberg
Artist
Tilman Küntzel
Year
2005
Size
length ca. 5 m, diameter of the disc ca. 1 m
Material
light acoustig fountain
Object types
Fountains, Ground sculpture, Sound installations
Approach

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