sr-TUNING: SEMANTIC RELOADING

»Objects are semantically worn out long before the materials they are made of.« (Umberto Eco)
We developed Tuning as a strategy for enhancing the use of a structure. For us, every structure is »tuneable«. Our method of Tuning always concerns endowing semantically exHAU 4sted places, un-useable objects or worn-out structures with new content and possibilities of use. The aim is to make the use more multi-faceted by strengthening existing potential or implanting new inventions.

The beginnings of tuning go back to the methods of performance. Our first tuning was in 1998, the "sr-Furniture-Tuning" in the gallery "Urban Issue" in Berlin, a kind of live performance. With the help of flyers, we recruited people to bring along old furniture with semantic deficits to the gallery, where they were then to be tuned live. The room layout corresponded to the process of tuning. At the beginning, there were the service corners with customer consulting, followed by the workshop, where tuning was carried out. After this came the showroom, where the tuned furniture could be tried out and stood ready for collection by the owners.