Freiraum - Präludium und Fuge Op.201 (2018)
Freiraum - Präludium und Fuge Op.201 (2018)
Präludium: can very. For example Mediaplayer and speaker in elevator (4min, Loop)
Fuge: 2 channel video installation, stereo sound, (9Std. 58 min, Loop)
The Fugue is based on research on the subversive and
creative potential of “Langeweile” (boredom) and “Langeverweilen” (tarrying). I repeatedly spent several hours in
a closed institutional room and documented my experiences and actions. Predominant is not only the perception of space and time and how this perception changes during tarrying and repeating but also the shift and re-framing of given structures observed during the process. By withdrawing myself from given daily frames and concepts of time efficiency, I found a free-space in a closed room. Regarding the ongoing economization of attention within our society I see high relevance in this kind of subtle subversion that can open new perspectives.
The performative, acoustic, visual (video/photos) material that emerged from my self-experiment got reconstructed in an approximately 10 hours long spacial-video-acoustic Fugue that invites the recipient to re-interpret.
As the perceptions of time and space, movement and standstill, sound and silence merged during this experience, so do the methods used: photography, stop-motion sequences, videos of hardly moving shadows, documentations of performances (visual and acoustic) and the slow, silent and dark sequences where the exhibition room starts to interfere with the work.
Prelude: as in music, the prelude of this work is a short playful introduction that can vary regarding the exhibition space. In the original presentation it was an acoustic piece “singing along elevator music” installed in the elevator that directly lead into the main installation.
Media:
Präludium: can very. For example Mediaplayer and speaker in elevator (4min, Loop)
Fuge: 2 channel video installation, stereo sound, (9Std. 58 min, Loop)