Claire hooper artist biography

Ian Hunt: Before Nyx () you made Nach Spandau (), also made in the U-Bahn, Berlin’s metro. What is their relationship?

Claire Hooper: Nach Spandau is about the U7 line, designed by Rainer G.

Rümmler. I was making it at night alone on the station platforms. It gave me time to think, especially about the experience of night. How does one define night when there is no moon or stars? No darkness?

Claire hooper artist biography

Underground stations are perennially lit in the same way and the machinery functions rhythmically; what changes significantly is people’s behavior. Nach Spandau was about the architecture of the U7 itself and the progression of Rümmler’s designs, but in pursuing this I was observing the drunken teenagers and street people (using the U-Bahn for shelter), insomniacs, night cleaners as performers.

IH: Nyx quickly takes on a mythical character, but the names of the characters aren’t given until the credits.