Autochoreographic composition of images in motion, reflections, video controller, and urban sound.
Spacial score / text research / video > Penelope Wehrli; Sound composition > TAMTAM, (Sam Auinger / Hannes Strobl); Video controller / asynchronisation machine > Joa Glasstetter; Camera > Sirko Knüpfer; Image processing > Thomas Ballschmieter; Machine construction > Peter Buchheit / Lichtblick Bühnentechnik
As we enter, we see ourselves first. Then a face in the process of concentrated listening. Another face — video portraits like holograms on mirrors. The mirrors move, and they reflect the face into the room. Bigger and becoming blurred — and then smaller again and sharp down to a single point. Again and again, the viewer sees themselves mirrored as a picture in a picture. The elements are superimposed on each other. Seeing and hearing become a play of sharpening and blurring, of appearance and disappearance.
Heard in the video portraits (but inaudible to us) are: for Johannes Heisig, Das Gedächtnis des Körpers by Jan Kott; for Angela Lambea, Noh oder über die Zeichen by Jan Kott; for Emma and Selma von Löw, excerpts from Michel Tournier’s Zwillingssterne; for Karolina Serafin, “The flea draws blood,” from Patti Smith’s M-Train, and for Alexander Weigel, an excerpt from W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn.
KUNSTVEREIN TIERGARTEN / GALERIE NORD October 19–November 24, 2018