Installation

“In a darkened room 15 x 3 x 3 metres, a video sequence is beamed – in endless rear projection - onto the square wall facing the visitor as he/she enters.

Computer-manipulated texts from Genesis may then be seen as a rolling text before a background of orange/white graph paper.
When the visitor slowly approaches the area of the projection, a system of several consecutive sensors or surveillance cameras ensure that the colour, form and lettering of the videos changes into faster or slower sequences, s/w motion blurs and transformations causing the explosion of particles. This is based on sequences of images which I took in the underground, several kilometre long, ring-shaped tevatron-accelerator at the Fermi Laboratory.
In addition, a revolving disc - resembling a data carrier, made of yellow, blown glass and then sand blasted - becomes visible. The participles of numerous verbs are written on this in the form of a spiral. They characterise states of motion; rushing, stabbing, penetrating, hitting, racing, hurrying, staggering, flowing, dragging, banging, flickering, chasing and so on. In the process, the disc moves so that it is possible to perceive the words as such, but so that they can scarcely be read. At the same time, the spiral form has the effect of attracting our eyes magnetically, just as a tunnel would.

Finally, within the flow of images the manipulation of these impressions of motion becomes the theme itself, in the shape of manipulating hands. As a metaphor, they generate the exchange of energies as concrete action. In the process, the real shadows of hands overlay those hands depicted as something imaginary.

An exhibition by the Gemäldegalerie Berlin in the series “Bilder im Blickpunkt“ (Focus on Pictures) in cooperation with the GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ, Centre of Earth Research), Potsdam.

16 channel composition / installation

Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, 2000 (Group Exhibition "recall to mind" w/ Rolf Julius, Joseph Kosuth, May 27 - July 15, 2000)

Table from MDF with internally mounted TFT-Display and Computer, Chair

"Now some years ago there came upon the market, under the name of the "Mytic Writing Pad", a small contrivance that promises to perform more than a sheet of paper or a slate. But if it is examined more closely it will be found that its construction shows a remarkable agreement with my hypothetical structure of our perceptual apparatus and that it can in fact provide both an ever-ready receptive surface and permanent traces of notes that have been made upon it."
Notiz über den 'Wunderblock ('A Note upon the 'Mystic Writing Pad'), Sigmund Freud, 1925

Text: 79 Phrases from: Notiz über den 'Wunderblock' (A Note upon the 'Mystic Writing Pad'), Sigmund Freud, 1925; Int. Z. Psychoanal., 11 (1), 1-5; English Translation: Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 21 (4), 469-74, trans. by James Strachey 1950

335 Phrases from: Second Oxford English Dictionary. Ed. J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press,1989 A Glossary for Archivists, Manuscript Curators, and Records Managers; compiled by Lewis J. Bellardo and Lynn Lady Bellardo; The Society of American Archivists, Chicago, 1992.

Display: 14 Zoll TFT, 1024 x 768; Display Window: 20H x 15W cm.

Text size: 14 pt.; Normal and Italic (Freud Text) ; 32 Lines visible on Display

Display Colour: White letters on black field.

Text Writing Live from Database: Choose multiple random text fragments from database... Write in random position in random line... Wait, fade to random grey scale... Wait, fade to black (disapear)... Overwriting permitted...

Long Night of Sciences

The 1. Berlin Science Night with more than 80 science institutions at 5 shuttle bus tours.