Musiker  

WEARABLE SCULPTURE
2015 Berlin

Material: wood, leather, strings, tinplate, shoulder pad, laser engraving

© Susi Hinz. Photo: Christina Stoll & Andrii Klymenko




Musiker engages with the structures of confinement that shape contemporary existence — systems of control, projection, and self-imposed limitation. Rather than posing dystopian scenarios, the work examines how constraint is internalised and aestheticised within the present. Developed in dialogue with Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, and in particular its right panel — often referred to as the “musical hell” — the project revisits Bosch’s entanglement of pleasure, punishment, and spectacle. Musiker translates this historical vision into a contemporary register, asking how systems of desire, fear, and control continue to choreograph the body — and how alternative narratives might be composed from within these conditions.