First Stair To Nowhere, courtesy the Aus Berlin Festival
Have you ever felt the need to step inside a painting and get lost within its frontiers? You're in luck, because in a couple of months, you’ll be able to do just that in The Netherlands. The Peristal Singum, which will be shown at the Aus Berlin Festival in Tilburg on the 28th of November, is a larger-than-life installation that allows visitors to walk, climb, and crouch through an artsy wonderland containing over ten different chambers. The labyrinth was such a huge success in Berlin, the curators were forced to build a bigger version. Even after that, people still had to queue up for over three hours to get lost in the labyrinth.
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The artist behind Peristal Singum is the German Tim Henrik Schneider. Painting is Schneider’s bread and butter, but he felt a ‘normal’ exposition at the museum wouldn’t do his latest project any justice. “Peristal Singum is a metaphor of the human digestive system,” he explains to me on the phone. "Nowadays people don’t take the time to process art. They consume it like junk food instead. Art can be confusing and has the power to alter your assumptions. I want people to discover that feeling in the Peristal. [The] physical experience of art is the only way people will start to self-reflect.”
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According to Schneider, visitors embedded in the Peristal Singum won’t be able to ignore the art that’s inside. “You can try and whiz past the artworks once you’re in there, but I guarantee you’ll bump your head a few times.” The original Peristal Singum took around nine months to construct, but Schneider and his team of local artists are convinced they’ll manage to build the Dutch replica in two days. “The reason it took so long in Berlin is because I was short of funding. I had to make do with the material I could find at construction sites in the city. Even though it’ll only take a couple of days to build the haunting maze in Tilburg, we’ve been preparing for almost two years,” Schneider concludes.Frankly, I can’t wait to plunge myself in Schneider’s wonderland to see how deep the rabbit hole really goes. Check out the photos below for a sneak peek of what to expect in Tilburg.
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