„A strange situation: A projector is illuminating a mirror ball in a darkened room. The disco ball reflects the light and projects a word in rhythmic sequence through the room and onto the walls: fragen or Fragen (“asking” as a verb or a noun), complete with an exclamation mark or a question mark. But just what is going on here? Is this event culture or art space? Disco or art show? Video store for “low art” or movie theater for “high culture”? Mischa Kuball’s artworks pose question upon question, both literally and metaphorically; however, he is just as consistent in refusing to supply an answer. Whoever looks at the light installation unintentionally becomes the reader of a message, which remains strangely encoded despite its apparently banal obviousness. The scene changes: Mischa Kuball has used the same formal principle, but with a number of illuminated disco balls, which reflect the projected light multiplied kaleidoscopically throughout the exhibition space. They can be static or in motion. The projected concepts and words now form fragments of phrases and sentences, such as “speed—space—speech” or “material—immaterial.” The aesthetic and conceptual line between the individual spatial vision and a comprehensive visual space is thus definitively dissolved.3 As the viewer’s movements in space and time become a causal component of the reception, he or she is both passive reader and active visitor.“ by Florian Matzner (2007: Mischa Kuball ... in progress, Projekte / Projects 1980–2007, hrsg. von / ed. by Florian Matzner, p. 315f)
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