On a Delicate Mission — Temporary Exhibition at the Swiss National Museum Zurich
For the temporary exhibition ‘On a Delicate Mission — Tales of Swiss Diplomacy’ at the Swiss National Museum Zurich, iart realised the table for a diplomatic banquet. The decked table was so precisely overlaid and extended by a projection with moving images that a paradoxical blend of reality and fiction was created.
The unlit candles cast a flickering light on the table cloth; virtual wine was poured into real glasses from bottles that could be seen but not touched and disembodied hands grasped the cutlery, cutting up illusory meat on plates that really existed. The use of surround sound effects heightened the banquet’s spatial impact: invisible people with virtual hands conversed in various languages, to some extent contributing historical meaning to what was happening.
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On a Delicate Mission — Temporary Exhibition at the Swiss National Museum Zurich
Website of the exhibition
Temporary exhibition, Duration: 16/5/2007 — 16/9/2007Client
Swiss National Museum, ZurichCustomer
Holzer Kobler Architekturen GmbH, ZurichServices iart
Concept, planning and realisation of lighting, projection and ambient sound of the exhibition
Preparation and animation of the projectionMedia
High definition projection on a table with objects, realised with three projectors
Surround Sound of the tableContent
Film of the dinner and the corresponding sound designProject Partners
Holzer Kobler Architekturen GmbH, Zurich, Exhibition design
Reinhard Pelger, Production manager, director
Haimo Ganz, ChefProject Duration
3 monthsExhibition Area
700 m2
Test setting in the iart studio.
Video take in the studio.