The summer of 2007 saw the second Contemporary Art Norwich; a citywide biennial event programmed to coincide with the seventeenth EAST international exhibition at Norwich Gallery and Norwich School of Art & Design.

OUTPOST, one of the four key partners programming 2007’s biennial, invited S1 Artspace along with nine other artist-led spaces from across Europe and the UK to participate in British & European Legs. Each organisation reflected OUTPOST’s programming approach by presenting the work of a single artist in temporary spaces located in the city’s ageing Anglia Square Shopping Centre.

S1 Artspace invited Glasgow based artist Torsten Lauschmann to develop & present an on-going work, Curtain.

“Curtain was an ongoing (sculptural) video piece of computer-generated video based on Conway’s Game of Life mathematical explorations. Visually it resembled a curtain moving slightly from a draft of wind. The movement has for me an interesting balance of being both synthetic and real. It created an artificial veil suggesting something beyond. It was sculptural but immaterial. For me it was a lure, which suggests a better, brighter world behind it but ultimately revealed itself as a mirage. The piece was modular and could take any shape and length by using multiple video projectors / walls – it became as much a sculpture as a film.” Torsten Lauschmann

S1 Artspace’s participation at Contemporary Art Norwich was generously supported by theThe Elephant Trust & OUTPOST.