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Zäit Wuert

Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg

2019

LAb[au], Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, Els Vermang

6 custom tailored sixteen segment displays & electronics, aluminium casing

abstract

The installation Zäit Wuert (Time Word) consists of a six-letter illuminated sign mounted on the Casino façade on boulevard Roosevelt. The displayed words depend on a process that randomly generates one letter after another while verifying each combination in German, English, French and Luxembourgish dictionaries. If no word is found, the process starts all over again.

Each query takes a different time, which in turn defines the duration of the word’s display. Based on a chance operation, the installation replaces the sign’s original six letters: c-a-s-i-n-o. This writing process supplants traditional narration with the polysemy of an agnostic statement, a concrete poetry that encourages interpretation and association.

credits

special thanks to:
Kevin Muhlen, artistic director
ING for it's Sponsorship

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history

The permanent artwork has been commissioned in the context of the solo-show: If, Then Else of LAb[au] in 2019 at Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporan.

public artworks by the Belgian artstudio LAb[au], laboratory for art and urbanism, atr&language, art&architecture crossing conceptual art, kinetic art, digital art, konkrete

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