KunstPraxis 3
Mariko Sakamoto and Steffen Werner
13.01. - 07.03.2003
Mariko Sakamoto (Berlin) works on the interface between
film and drawing, using poetic narrative structures
to connect the two genres. For the waiting room at the
company doctor's office, she designed a sequence of
pictures derived from film stills. Entitled "6 Sekunden
aus lim x–›∞(1/x)" and presented as silkscreen
images printed on foil, these wall-sized artworks were
installed along the window façade. The pictures,
which were shot in Super 8 film format during a 24-hour
time period, show fragmentary images excised from street
scenes in Berlin. The technical process to which they
have been subjected makes these images appear transparent,
with sketch-like patterning. Through her cinematographic
sequencing of the images, the artist creates stories
about time, space, and movement. Images recalled from
films by the process of free association blended with
the everyday movements of the passersby on Jäger
Street to produce a soft-focus view of reality as seen
through the window.
Steffen Werner's (Munich) artistic work links the virtual
worlds of computer games, animations, and films with
the actual situations of a real exhibition. His video
installations respond to existing spatial structures,
using multimedia to set architecture or static objects
into motion. Steffen Werner created a digitally processed
video sequence entitled "SPRINGGYM" for the company
doctor's office. The video that accompanies the installation
was filmed onsite by Siemens coworkers from several
different departments within the enterprise. Professional
instructors led Siemens personnel, who were wearing
their ordinary business attire, through various gymnastic
and aerobic exercises. Technical post-processing using
the so-called "bluebox method" transported the images
of the amateur performers into the midst of an alpine
landscape. In the KunstPraxis exhibition, "SPRINGGYM"
was projected onto the walls of the hallway in the doctor's
office, where its images playfully reflected on the
function of the human body in the field of tension between
work, sports, and leisure time. |
