S.P.A.C.E. was a residency program (Nov. 2022 – Oct. 2024) set up by LaborBerlin as part of the SPECTRAL project, a collaborative initiative between six European artist-run film labs dedicated to exploring analog projection as an artistic practice. The residency provided artists with space, resources, and access to a fully equipped studio featuring projectors, film loopers, screens, and sound equipment.
Organized by LaborBerlin in collaboration with Württembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart, this program presents a selection of works developed during these residencies: live expanded cinema performances and installations that challenge conventional relationships between image and sound, dynamically activating the projection space and transforming it into a site of shared experience. Each piece emerged from an intensive period of artistic research and hands-on experimentation, highlighting the enduring vitality of analogue film as a living, evolving art form.
Württembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart
22 November 2025
7 pm
Horror Film 1 – Malcolm Le Grice (Reenacted by Betija Zvejniece), 1971, 14′, sound
With thanks to the Artistic Estate of Malcolm Le Grice.
First presented in 1971, Horror Film 1 is a performance with three film projectors and a body. The three projections superimpose three loops creating constantly changing color effects. The body of the performer, placed in front of the screen, gradually moves towards the projectors while operating a series of movements that creates a complex set of colored shadows. The central image is larger than the two side images, which are superimposed in the center of the larger frame. A constant breathing is the only soundtrack that accompanies this 14 min performance.
DNCB – Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger, 2021, 20′, sound
DNCB stands for Dinitrochlorobenzene. It is a yellowish, crystalline, and highly toxic chemical used in colour film processing. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, the substance was also used as a treatment in alternative AIDS therapies. The performance combines layered images and sounds that reflect on the complex history of this chemical substance and the self-organised communities who used it.
REVUE !!! – Bernd Lützeler, Music by Brain Operating System, 2025, 10–15′, sound (no dialogues)
Two Super-8 film projectors invite us to a stereoscopic 3D projection, a firework of psychedelic patterns and artifacts from the golden age of amateur cinema: it pumps, jumps, slides, and distorts the reference points of our languid brains. A trip.
333 : Invocation, Pilar Falco, 2024, 25′, sound
“333: Invocation” is a 16mm film noise performance that explores the combination of abstract and photographic images, to generate open associations and perceptions in the audience. Two frames coexist on a transparent screen that is lightweight and immobile. The possibility of discovering details and new compositions through repetition: a new perspective on the same images combined with a sequence of a moving body.
Württembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart
22 November 2025
7 pm
Schlossplatz 2
D-70173 Stuttgart
Free entry
https://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/programm/2025/veranstaltungen/space-expanded/
The event is supported by the Creative Europe Program and the Senate of the City of Berlin