7 Tanzboden 1

Tanzboden, 2015


Time Warp Festival,
Mannheim, Germany
714 single images,
recorded with computer-controlled SLR camera
during the entire party on dancefloor 1,
April 5, 19:30 to April 6, 11:00, 2015



Tanzboden (Dance Floor) shows a large-scale annual techno event in Mannheim, recorded with a computer-controlled SLR camera attached to the lighting rig. Due to the constantly changing lights, the recording was technically unpredictable. Consequently, a large number of images were out-of-focus and merely abstract.

There are three versions of Tanzboden. Version 1 is a site-specific panorama installation.

Version 2 is a framed inkjet print with production details and the line-up of DJs printed on the white border.

Version 3, Tanzboden Abstracts, is a series of fortynine prints of single images.

Version 4, Obey, Obey, is a group of nine framed images.

Some images from this recording are part of Sale & Pleasure Abstracts, a series of posters (120 × 80 cm).



DJ’s Dancefloor 1
19:30 Steffen Baumann,
21:30 Felix Kröcher
23:00 Rødhåd
00:30 Paco Osuna
02:00 Carl Cox
05:00 Pan-Pot
07:00 Chris Liebing
09:00 – 11:00 Len Faki