Metabolic Chairs (2018–23)

As part of the course in Curatorial Theory and Dramaturgical Practice headed by Clémentine Deliss, the Metabolic Chairs were created by Diane Hillebrand together with Francesca-Romana Audretsch, Janina Capelle, Lizzy Elbrück, Teresa Häußler, Cécile Kobel and Christina Scheib at the University of Art and Design, Karlsruhe (HfG). Second-hand folding director’s chairs were purchased on E-Bay and then repurposed. The chairs were conceived to resemble a group of people in a park, each with a different textile ranging from jeans to lace. Each chair had a side bag to place books in, a pole with a spotlight for working in dark spaces, a tongue-shaped swivel table, and a small projector for ‘spamming the hang’ in exhibitions.