Wört3r

WÖRT3R (W0RD5)

2025, interactive installation

All images: screenshots from Performative Symposium documentation video, camera: Priyanka Sarkar, Fiona Ahrens, 2025

WÖRT3R is an interactive spatial installation based on sculptural letterforms originally developed during a workshop with Franziska Windolf at the Hamburg State Teachers’ Institute (LI). The clay objects were photographed in high resolution and translated into a projection setup operating through alternating red and blue image states, referencing 3D space in video technology.

A projected “WÖRT3R” inscription appears either on the wall or on the opposing touchscreen display, while the respective second surface remains temporarily blank. Through the movement and positioning of viewers interacting with the sculptural interface, different image constellations become visible and continuously shift between presence and absence.

Oscillating between projection, display and objecthood, the work explores unstable conditions of reading, perception and spatial mediation. The alternating color filters and split visual structure create a perceptual tension between physical and virtual image spaces.

Footage captured by Priyanka Sarkar & Fiona Ahrens

Sculptural lettering developed within workshop with the LI staff led by Franziska Windolf.

Technical direction sound/light: Gabriel Saaber
Technical direction video/sculpture/ FX: Stanislav Glazov
Video assistance: Rike Malottke
Sculpture visual design and execution by Daniel Pietschmann
Set up assistance: Arjun Panayal

Dual-channel image installation, projection, screen, interactive sculptural interface
Part of Performative Symposium, LI Hamburg, 2025