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installation
view from platformen, 4 March-24 April 2000, Museet for Fotokunst,
Denmark
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This installation
of video, photography and performance explores the notion of communication,
not only as a visual language, but communication as a set of relationships
between art and life, war and peace, spectator and creator, memory
and language. Thinking it as a long-distance phone call - trying
to make sense of the other receiver's non-sense, replacing the
phone with organic, singular activity. The walk is not to make
sense out of something seemingly senseless. French contemporary
thinker, Jean-Luc Nancy, has already written that the Sense
of the World has come to an end.
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INTERVENTIONS
2000
mixed media installation
2 video, 60min, 4 monitors
36 C-prints 50x60cm on foam
1000 C-prints 13x18cm on card
2 plinths 100x60x60cm, glass
3 plinths 100x35x35cm, glass
found material, canvas
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format: 260x224mm, 188 pages,
124
colour photographs,
140
video-stills, 30
pages of text in
English, German, Danish |
This
book is in effect a documentation of a man walking alone through
Europe. Each page is a fragment of the bigger picture and the
book is mapping together all the events, experiences and narratives
without telling a linear story or representing a particular view
- except that of my own. My position is akin to that of a passer-by
constantly trying to situate himself in a moving environment.
Each intervention is another fragment of the story that is being
invented and a challenge to the narrative and economic structure
of Western representation. A movement through images and the memory
of them experienced in a non-chronological non-linear way. What
is left as a remainder of the ultimate adventure is pictorial
vestige representing the uninterested and unnoticed from areas
of Europe at the turn of a century. Fragments and visual souvenirs
captured like postcards that are too late, recorded after or before
the event. Postcards that do not inform us about an essence,
but a mere existence. The (un)eventful and indifferent
produced through photography and video that is neither narrative
nor abstract but in media terms remains elusive, generating and
destabilizing viewpoints made up of alternating fragments of reality,
memory and imagination.
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