Start Dreaming, 2007
2-channel video projection
size: 8'x10' each panel
TRT: 17:00
Start Dreaming is a double projection in adjacent walls. On one side, we see images that recall Vestigium II. The image is brought again to a standstill, yet this time, not to be examined but to watch objectively: The static camera passively observes the landscape unfold before it, capturing surveillance-like images from the suburb of Toronto (Vaughan) from afar and of pre-World War II housing in Berlin, seen from the neighborly within – STASI-style. They appear next to images of four model cities made up of Bauhaus toy housing that are based on actual blueprints of ideal living arrangements. Filmed from an aerial perspective, the camera travels above the models, which are spinning rhythmically on their axis. Suddenly, the urban arrangements implode and fall apart, accompanied (or prompted?) by unexpected explosions.
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Text by Irmgard Emmelhainz
2-channel video projection
size: 8'x10' each panel
TRT: 17:00
Start Dreaming is a double projection in adjacent walls. On one side, we see images that recall Vestigium II. The image is brought again to a standstill, yet this time, not to be examined but to watch objectively: The static camera passively observes the landscape unfold before it, capturing surveillance-like images from the suburb of Toronto (Vaughan) from afar and of pre-World War II housing in Berlin, seen from the neighborly within – STASI-style. They appear next to images of four model cities made up of Bauhaus toy housing that are based on actual blueprints of ideal living arrangements. Filmed from an aerial perspective, the camera travels above the models, which are spinning rhythmically on their axis. Suddenly, the urban arrangements implode and fall apart, accompanied (or prompted?) by unexpected explosions.
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Text by Irmgard Emmelhainz