to the ground.

For the Kunstverein’s tower room, Nikola Dicke developed a spatial installation consisting of light, drawing, real film, mirrors and water, which physically and philosophically explores the connections between these elements.

The words of a poem by Emily Dickinson were written on soot-blackened slides and travelled through the canals of Utrecht on a rowing boat using a battery-powered slide projector. The projected lines of poetry were filmed as they moved across the water, along the walls and through the tunnels. This film will be shown together with the

This film, together with the words of the poem written in soot on glass on an OHP, is projected over a water surface onto the walls of the tower room and forms a

moving, quietly undulating circular projection of water over water.

Water makes many beds

for those averse to sleep

its awful chamber open stands

its curtains blandly sweep

adhorrent is the rest

in undulating rooms

whose amplitude no end invades

whose axis never comes

(Emily Dickinson)