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GMU:Provokative Architektur/Katta K. (view source)
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With | With this performance-based video-work I explore interactions | ||
between body movement, space motion and moving image. | between body movement, space motion and moving image. | ||
I want to show a space where human exercises and spatial transformation | I want to show a space where human exercises and spatial transformation | ||
act on each other reciprocally. | act on each other reciprocally. | ||
Therefore I set up an interface space: the Black Box | Therefore I set up an interface space: the Black Box. | ||
A black cube, painted | A black cube, painted into a corner of a room, about the size of a man with streched arms. | ||
This black cube itself plays with the experience of dimensionalities: | This black cube itself plays with the experience of dimensionalities: | ||
From afar it appears like a spatial object, but there are just painted planes, | From afar it appears like a spatial object, but there are just painted planes, | ||
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In the context of an exhibition over 3 days I invited people to explore the Black Box. | In the context of an exhibition over 3 days I invited people to explore the Black Box. | ||
I created a setting of passage around it: | I created a setting of passage around it: | ||
The visitors had to | The visitors had to get out of their shoes - the black is so sensitive - | ||
and to | and to put on white overalls to remain visible and | ||
for the impression of being in a protective suit while investigating an unknown zone. | for the impression of being in a protective suit while investigating an unknown zone. | ||
The Black Box serves as transit room into virtuality wherein the visitors were recorded on video. | The Black Box serves as transit room into virtuality wherein the visitors were recorded on video. | ||
I explicitly asked the visitors to express with their bodies what they long for in | I explicitly asked the visitors to express with their bodies what they long for | ||
The explorers | in this black virtual space and to reach for whatever to interact with. | ||
The explorers showed a playful delight for performance. | |||
The recorded performances provide the basic material for motion studies in motion graphics. | The recorded performances provide the basic material for motion studies in motion graphics. | ||
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But the boxes themselves also activate each other and so on. | But the boxes themselves also activate each other and so on. | ||
The viewers of | The viewers of these continuously floating videos shall also get in motion. | ||
Accordingly I will build a floating box which provides displays on each side to evoke the appearance that inside this box there are hovering all the recorded performances, | Accordingly I will build a floating box which provides displays on each side to evoke the appearance that inside this box there are hovering all the recorded performances, | ||
showing up here and there. | showing up here and there. | ||