visuelles feld
- 2000
- ccd camera, television, wall drawing
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“In the work visuelles feld three elements are connected with each other: A monochrome black-and-white wall drawing, a camera which monitors the wall drawing, and a television monitor that renders the signals recorded by the camera into a visual as well as auditory form.
As soon as the visitor enters the installation, he automatically disturbs the system. When he comes into the camera’s field of vision, he varies the signals it sends to the television and thereby changes the resulting image and sound. All movements that occur in the room add tension to the setting – we realize that as soon as we observe a system we cannot prevent to become part of it.”
yes/no
- 2008
- two aluminium sculptures on rubber mounting
- “both elaborately produced sculptures are conceived of acoustic wave forms of the spoken words ‘yes’ and ‘no’. they reperesents the attempt to materialize the sculptural chararcteristics of sound when flowing through space into a respective visual effigy. the semantic content of the sculptures give answers to unasked questions and hence open up a wide range of interpretation and association. yes/no could additionally be considered a very special portrait of laurie anderson, who originally spoke the two words that have been solidified here.”
I feel fantastic. You feel fantastic. I am fantastic. You are fantastic.
Aurora Borealis (Marlon Brando, Neil Young and Pocahontas)
Appendage no. 6
inkjet Print
11 x 14 inches
27.9 cm x 35.6 cm
2009
from VVork
from Wikipedia:
Dancing Plague of 1518
The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, France (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518. Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and over the period of about one month, most of the people died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.
The outbreak began in July 1518, when a woman, Frau Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg.This lasted somewhere between four to six days. Within a week, 34 others had joined, and within a month, there were around 400 dancers. Most of these people eventually died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.
Historical documents, including “physician notes, cathedral sermons, local and regional chronicles, and even notes issued by the Strasbourg city council” are clear that the victims danced. It is not known why these people danced to their deaths, nor is it clear that they were dancing willfully.
As the dancing plague worsened, concerned nobles sought the advice of local physicians, who ruled out astrological and supernatural causes, instead announcing that the plague was a “natural disease” caused by “hot blood”. However, instead of prescribing bleeding, authorities encouraged more dancing, in part by opening two guildhalls and a grain market, and even constructing a wooden stage. The authorities did this because they believed that the dancers would only recover if they danced continually night and day. To increase the effectiveness of the cure, authorities even paid for musicians to keep the afflicted moving.
