INTERVAL # 1 the waitingroom : Claire Fons

INTERVAL # 1 the waitingroom/ de wachtkamer 2009

Sound produced by Sanba productions

The waiting room is built from tainted glass, metal and wood. The installation is built in the gallery, in front of the entrance of the building. This means that visitors, before entering the actual space of the exposition, first have to take place in the waiting room. The waiting room is completely sealed off with glass walls and at the end contains one sliding-door. Just like in a normal waiting room there are benches on which one can sit. Background-music can be heard in the waiting room and every five minutes one hears three beep sounds. At the sound of these beep sounds the siding-door opens and people can leave the waiting room and enter the exhibition space. After someone has left the waiting room the sliding-door closes again and the visitor can read the title of the work and look at the next group of people that enters the waiting room. In this way, visitors are confronted with an interval (between time and between space) from the first moment that they enter the gallery. Visitors are forced into an interval, in which they experience a waiting time. Secondly, visitors literally find themselves in an interval (the waiting room): a constructed space between outside and the exhibition-proper inside. The waiting visitors do not know how long they have to wait, they also do not know that the installation in which they find themselves is a waiting room, and that they are in that very moment part of the art work.

the waitingroom