A1000 explores how our perception of reality is shaped by architectural and material conditions. The project examines both physical and immaterial spatial experiences, investigating how they inform subjective and collective understandings of the real. By identifying, deconstructing, and inverting these assumptions, the work aims to reveal the underlying systems that shape our sense of space.

The central site of the project is an existing structure in Berlin—a concrete mass that stands as a kind of foreign body in the urban landscape. Its architecture creates a contained, self-referential space that feels disconnected from its surroundings. Just as social realities are shaped by constructed systems, so too is spatial reality governed by architectural logic: to represent, to divide, to unify, to disrupt, to control.

Through installed wooden objects, perspective-based interventions, and spatial manipulation, the group activates and deconstructs the site. The resulting experience exists in a liminal zone—not entirely within the real, yet not outside it either. The viewer is confronted with disorienting effects: surfaces deceive, boundaries dissolve, and distinctions between the real, the digital, the staged, and the documentary blur.

The work combines installation, handcrafted objects, poetry, and video. The outcome is a five-minute video piece.
A1000 is a collaborative project developed during a course at the Berlin University of the Arts in the winter semester 2020/21, by Luisa Herbst, Meret Schmiese, and Mattia Friso.