FROM AERIAL VORTICES

2015, duration: 8:09 min

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FROM AERIAL VORTICES opens up a space free of gravity and leads into an utopian imagination of a timeless society. It takes the viewer on a vertiginous journey into an ocean of moving architectural formations and colourful structures. The work is referencing a modern architectural space constructed to perceive cinema through dancing. The Cinebalroom was originally designed by Theo van Doesburg who was interested in creating a state of illusion through precise mathematical constructions. But it turned out the original space remained always as an illusion. It got destroyed immediately after it's opening and exists today as a reconstruction, which rather works as a monument than being used in it’s original purpose. The only human appearing in the video is the invigilator of that reconstructed space. The invigilator plays himself but also transforms to a half- forgotten figure of the western avant-garde, creating a sense of melancholia for something that never existed.

From Aerial Vortices was supported by Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain, CEAAC und Kulturamt Frankfurt.