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...deeply__to the notion that the___world is___to the observer... (commited) (real) (external) - 2004
wood panels, white tape, two-channel video installation, website
Format variable
Exhibition views: Kunstverein München, Munich, 2004.
Photos: Wilfried Petzi
In 1973 Germany saw its first Car-Free Sunday. This date is used here as a coordinate for an investigation into a paradigmatic shift towards immateriality in the understanding of production.
Plot - Two people have gathered material on the political, economic and cultural background of the oil crisis of 1973. They collected the material on a portable billboard, which they want to place outdoors. The billboard folds up and one can carry it as a backpack. They walk along a street. It is a big street, probably a autobahn. The street is empty. No cars are driving by. One of them carries the billboard. The other films with a small video camera.
The conversation of the two people is recorded with wireless microphones. They talk about possibilities of action and personal positions within global events. A second camera records the action from the distance.
In the exhibition the portable billboard is set up in the entrance room. In the following main room the two camera postions are shown synchronically and next to each other on a large screen. Road markings are applied to the floor in the whole space.
The title „...deeply___to the notion that the world is___to the observer... (commited)(real) (external)“ is based on a Henry Kissinger quotation. Henry Kissinger was National Security Advisor and Head of State during the time of the oil crisis.
More information and the posters fro the portable board are downloadable from http://www.possest.de/notaboutoil.html.
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