reflected in an unmarked space
100 Spiegelsitzungen/24 Stunden
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Looking into one's own eyes one gazes into the unknown. Once staring into emptiness has become almost programmatic, the trip behind the mirror landscape can begin.
With Carroll's Alice in one's backpack and Lacan in the the pocket of one's pants, one can dive in, into a landscape with neither land nor qualities. Enclosed in the mirror. Within the frame, immersed in a counter-landscape, in a garden decked out with a manifold of arbitrarily chosen actors from the arsenal of private acquaintances. A piece of reality, that could look like this but also otherwise.
The "Blue Box", the most strongly deterritorialised element in this respect, the metaphor for the application of coding mechanisms on a visual plane (a space devoid of place, shadow or identity), an anti-landscape, with neither land nor qualities, suggested itself for the realisation of this project, as already for "Decoding:Recoding", another project about "dissolution through sameness in emptiness".
Here, the "Blue Box" - method, in which by means of intense illumination something like the visualisation of coding systematics becomes possible, allowing the deliberate cultivation of the "Blue Box"garden with literally countless possibilities, is implicitly present without the expense of its actual employment.100 performers invited to the mirror sitting, set into the garden of the mirror landscape. 100 persons from my personal environment, who draw a portrait of themselves by the way in which they gaze at the uncertainty behind the mirror landscape. The individual personality is challenged to an unusual degree by the reduction of the possibilities for action to mere looking. Every tiny gesture, a slight twitch of the eyelids, a fleeting inhalation from the corners of the mouth, a nervous wobbling of the flesh of the cheeks, arouses the attention of the observer, turns the participant into a portrait subject, raises the question about the meaning of the film, in which the performer/portrait subject seems to be inserted. A 16mm film, generally of the genre of educational films from the 1910's to the 1960's, is chosen by the participant on the basis of its theme, and thus constitutes the first self-description. The projection of the film at one's back, while one is robbed of the possibility of watching, insofar as one exercises the required self-discipline, follows directions, doesn't sneak a backward look from the corner of one's eye, throws one even more back upon oneself. Perhaps the request to abstain evokes in one's own eyes the arising of a picture puzzle to counteract the temptation of the world of images.
Finally the dissolution in emptiness leads, at least for the recipient, to a redoubling, since each film was chosen twice, whereby pairs with the same "landscape" ingredients were formed, which are again differentiated through the addition of an external quotation, which reflects the whole process again on the linguistic plane.
001 Nikolaus Wostry 002 Chrono Popp 003 Paul A.Leitner 004 Martin Kay 005 Ronald Pohl 006 Fritz Widhalm 007 Stefan Müller 008 Georg Salner 009 Werner Bechter 010 Victoria Tremmel 011Edgar Honetschläger 012 Vera Redlich 013 Bettina Unger 014 Christoph Steinbrener 015 Gillian Kay 016 Julius Deutschbauer 017 Christian Steinbacher 018 Martin Loew-Cadonna 019 Thomas Feuerstein 020 Manfred Swoboda 021 Elisabeth Grübl 022 Thomas Reinagl 023 Wolfgang Podgorschek 024 Sabine Groschup 025 Georg Weckwerth 026 Li Yan Ping 027 Oswald Egger 028 Katharina Hinsberg 029 Michael Kienzer 030 Andrea Sodomka 031 Martin Breindl 032 Clemens Gadenstätter 033 Lisa Spalt 034 Ilse Kilic 035 Brigitte Prinzgau 036 Reinhold Aumaier 037 Dieter Sperl 038 Norbert Math 039 Chiara Minchio 040 Andreas Leikauf 041 Christian Wachter 042 Petra Ganglbauer 043 Christine Huber 044 Karin Spielhofer 045 Erich Wolfesberger 046 Susanne Neuburger 047 Barbara Gassner 048 Manfred Grübl 049 Josef Ondracek 050 Doris Hassler 051 Michael Gumhold 052 Astrid Becksteiner 053 Klaus Pamminger 054 Nicole Finsinger 055 Norbert Brunner 056 Heinrich Dunst 057 Susanne Guggenberger 058 Agnieszka Baniewska 059 Amer Abbas 060 Andreas Scharf 061 Hermann Hendrich 062 Ulrich Schlotmann 063 Ulf Stolterfoht 064 Elisabeth Breckner 065 Liesl Ujvary 066 Herbert J.Wimmer 067 Christoph Bochdansky 068 Sanna Tobias 069 F.E.Rakuschan 070 Johann Schmit 071 Iris Nina Landsgesell 072 Monika Faber 073 Mirko Tobias Schäfer 074 Gertrude Moser-Wagner 075 Peter Pessl 076 Hansjörg Zauner 077 Matthias Fuchs 078 Mathias Goldmann 079 Dieter Buchhart 080 Ferdinand Schmatz 081 Thomas Schäfer 082 Elisabeth Zimmermann 083 Jochen Traar 084 Gerhard Jaschke 085 Petra Coronato 086 Gerald Nestler 087 Werner Herbst 088 Franz Türtscher 089 Ingo Nussbaumer 090 August Black 091 Nita Tandon 092 Christine Citti 093 Peter Wechsler 094 Sylvia Eckermann 095 Lucas Gehrmann 096 Christof Cargnelli 097 Eri Bakladi 098 Kristian Katt 099 Simon Frearson 100 Martin Skladal
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