[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/27156343[/vimeo]
The slamming of doors and windows is considered a heavy form of noise disturbance. But if you encounter skirting boards slamming, you can almost certainly ascribe it to the supernatural. Or to John Bock. His installation Ohr Walachei [Ear Wallachia] consists of doors, windows, door handles and skirting boards banging and squeaking as if moved by a ghost’s hand, in an otherwise empty gallery space. Apart from being a region of Romania, in German the term “Walachei” also refers to getting lost in the middle of nowhere and wanting to get out of there asap. At the gallery, the installation’s spooky and ceaseless rattling soon becomes nerve-wracking—quite a bold move, then, by both artist and gallerist, to present an installation no one can leave quickly enough. Photographer Anders Sune Berg filmed the installation at Galerie Klosterfelde especially for sleek during Berlin Gallery Weekend. It’s only one minute and nineteen seconds long. See if you can last the whole clip.