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A Video- and Sound Installation

In their first collaboration, the video artist Susanne Hofer (b. 1970) and the musician John Wolf Brennan (b. 1954) are creating, with "Inner and Outer Spaces", a multimedia installation featuring both sounds and spaces. With their visual outer and acoustic inner spaces, they make the viewer reflect on different possibilities of perception.

Susanne Hofer develops three-dimensional cardboard elements into a complex and multi-layered spatial structure built on three levels of depth. Within these she nests and condenses her video projections into exciting modern puzzles. John Wolf Brennan reinforces the unsettling visual aspect of the work with his acoustic labyrinth; different sound sources are hidden in cardboard boxes, developing an indefinable backdrop of sound. Selected sounds from everyday life ring out from the installation. The visitor to the museum experiences this work as a synaesthetic experience in the perception of space, spatiality, sounds and dimensions.

Susanne Hofer, born in Lucerne in 1970, attended Design college in Lucerne from 1990-95. The video artist has had study visits in Berlin, Paris, Chicago and New York, and has already had a number of Swiss awards and her first international exhibitions.

John Wolf Brennan, a Swiss-Irish musician - treading a path between E-music and jazz - was born in Dublin in 1954 and lives here in Lucerne. The pianist and composer has already published several albums, for which he has received international awards. Since 1988 he has increasingly appeared in solo concerts, but also in group formations, such as 'Pago Libre', 'Triangulation' and 'Momentum'. In 2003 he made the sound installation 'Klanggang' in the Museum of Art Lucerne.

Curated by Katja Lenz

Supported by Josef Müller Stiftung Muri, Edwin Fischer-Stiftung Luzern, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Ida und Albert Flersheim-Stiftung, Gemeinde Weggis, Zuger Kulturstiftung Landis & Gyr, www.silicon-fire.com, Lucerne Pianos.