LOOM
is a space
for the near future.
Once a week, for one hour, a room is set aside. The hour is reserved in advance. Whoever booked it comes alone.
There is tea, a few words, and an hour marked by sound. The music opens the hour and closes it. What happens in between is left open. One might look, read, sit, or simply stay. Little is asked, and nothing is expected.
A different pace
At first the room feels unfamiliar, someone else’s private space entered alone. Then the hour begins, and slowly the space starts to speak. Its walls hold an exhibition, a chapter with its own story, and little by little one settles into it.
Time begins to move at a different pace, neither the visitor’s nor the room’s, but something in between. The unfamiliarity never fully leaves, and that slight tension is part of how the hour is spent.
Chapter and Appendix
Reading is bound up with the subjectivity of time. A book is entered at one’s own pace, its depth measured differently by each reader. LOOM borrows this shape to hold many kinds of experience. Its activities unfold as Chapter, Bookmark, and Appendix.
Each Chapter carries a story of its own. Over time these have circled around: personal memory, fact and fiction, intimate conversation, the body in space, and floating voices. Bookmark marks the daily life of the space, its ongoing pages. And in the Appendix, a single visitor keeps an hour of their own, accompanied by a Playlist and a Booklist chosen for the moment.
We are open every Friday by appointment.
Please refer to this link to make a reservation.
www.l-o-o-m.com/reservation
Contact
Lindenstr. 91
10969 Berlin
Germany
LOOM
hello@l-o-o-m.com @loomisaspace
L: Na Kim
ynkim@ynkim.com @nananananananakim
M: Siniz Kim
siniz.kim@gmail.com @siniz