The emotion regulator, a work of art by Winfried Baumann, was actually supposed to go into operation in 2020 as the second part of the “ClubArt” series. Nothing came of it, the pandemic. However, what has remained is a word from the then Mayor Ulrich Maly, who did not want to suppress the comment when the plan was presented (which sometimes happened to him) that he could imagine a follow-up customer for this “emotion regulator”. Whom? “Uli Hoeneß”.
Yes, but the thing is probably in good hands in Nuremberg, there is supposed to be an uproar there from time to time. In this respect, the artist puts himself at the service of a good cause, as is right and proper. On Friday, his emotional attitude cube was still on Klarissenplatz, the location of the cooperation partners New Museum and Institute for Modern Art. In the following days, however, his affect corrective moves on to the club grounds, to the project initiator. Against Schalke, that could possibly suit one or the other of the promotion club fans (from the pot) or non-promotion club supporters (from Franconia).
The walk-in sculpture will then move into the urban space, a period of several years is planned. Do you need a means of controlling emotional movement for your company in Nuremberg? Just contact Baumann. The object has five cabins, depending on whether the local needs “heat up”, which is supposed to happen, or rather “relax” – just push the right button. What happens in the toilet-wide cells? You have to try it, it has to do with optics and acoustics as regulatory factors.
As the first part of the ClubKunst series, Dagmar Buhr hijacked advertising boards at a club game in 2019 and provided them with capitalism-skeptical word art, which is appealing in an industry in which people are “bought” or “lent”. Manfred Rothenberger, director of the Institute for Modern Art, followed the reactions on the internet. The question of who was drunk could not be clarified for everyone without a doubt.
Club members would have to be used to art. One of the most memorable poems of the post-war period? Peter Handke, “The line-up of 1. FC Nürnberg from January 27, 1969: “WABRA / LEUPOLD POPP / LUDWIG MÜLLER WENAUER BLANKENBURG / STAREK STREHL BRUNGS HEINZ MÜLLER VOLKERT. Game starts at 3 p.m.