Archive for the “Installation” category
Δ Aurigæ
by leo on Januar 9, 2012
Delta Aurigae is an installation which deals with the periodic coalescence of opposite aggregate states, based on and structured by the rhythm of a double star system like the constellation Auriga.
A world populated by meanders and monoliths, meteors and menhirs that draws inspiration from ancient astrology which was using rock formations and natural objects to decipher the universe and measure it’s cycles.
Delta Aurigae is a hybrid between installation and performance, a stage with a life of its own. In idle mode it shows a slow and majestic flow like a glacier, where fringes blur and relations vanish.
A monolith itself, Delta Aurigae is a 4.5m high triangle with a real-time projection.
Made with VVVV & Reaktor.
o-O-orbiting the delta skelta
In merry barycenter go-rounds.
Let’s build a whole city of glass houses, only a stone’s throw away
To regard the light night sky, dive drown
Dissolving vis-à-vis-viva equators
In our monolitheral observatory.
We will, we will…
Thanks to: sound:frame, Michael Grossauer & polypod, woei, joreg & vvvv, leo & ben (Bildwerk), Pomme, Gerald Moser, Romana Kleewein
Glyph
by leo on Oktober 6, 2011
Glyph is a projection sculpture with references to ritual monuments such as obelisks or stelas. It deals with cyclic change and constantly regenerates itself. An alphabet based on fundamental geometric shapes (rectangle, circle and triangle) acts as an communication device as well as a pure aesthetic element. All texts displayed are permanently evolving and restructured based on linguistic rules.
The installation runs in realtime – the video shows a random segment recorded at schmiede 2011.
Made with processing & reaktor
supported by Subnet AiR, Schmiede, Polypod, Waldschuetz Photography , Show2Go, Holzcraft
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glyph cleavage
like man-high menhirs
one line unbroken
heading for a fold
in the ministry of mist
a high official locks the primary gate
seals it thoroughly with wax
as he does every evening
thinking about molten rocks
and flocks therof
fold what you have at hand
if nothing
for a fold creates a separation that is an union that is a divide that is a joint
for nothing is ever so insisting as an unbridged gap
At
the atoms’ of words nightly fission
demounted scriptures
let letters
be
and build.
A Kohen’s head leaking
kowtow prostration high I rise downlift
in steadfast decline
loose faith and lost face
An arbitrary figure
crouched in covered crevices
sleeps,
calmed by the superiority of imaginary numbers
unscramble the
low tower password
tear open a portable peakhole
flood it with a froth of (moth) light
Down the lightwell, white
like loitering in literal tunnelfunnels
for it may be found not on the surface but within
not on the peak but above
not on the ground but underneath
subterranean alps
and towers piercing the earth
for every pit you dig, erect a mountain
humbly construct folds, to create in-between spaces
and aptly distortions -
then hide whole chunks of space within its pleats
and time , what else
a room for concealment, unlonged for.
a realm subject to
negotiation
Doldrums
by depart on September 25, 2010
photos by ela grieshaber & andreas waldschütz
concept, direction: depart (gregor ladenhauf, leonhard lass)
producer: schmiede / rüdiger wassibauer
production assistant & general handywork: daniela schindler
stage & lighting: jakob guggenberger (pro show)
make-up: steffi lamm
hair: cori pondorfer
photo & video documentation: andreas waldschütz & thomas rath
band: tom brüssel, christian schratt, jake, alex, florian leeb
thanks: andi hansel
Altar Ego
by depart on April 9, 2010
Altar Ego by Depart – mixed media installation
Thanks
Andreas Waldschütz & Thomas Rath (photography and video support), Patrick Glatthaar (hair), Steffi Lamm (makeup), Happy Lab
Kunstraum pro arte
17.09 – 9.10.2010
V_port / Museumsquartier Q21,
28.03 – 30.04.2010
I am sitting in a Room
by depart on September 25, 2008
(photos by cornelia auinger)
“I Am Sitting In A Room”:
respiratoratorium room ringing resonant ruckus
performance for one performer, two loudspeakers, two microphones, on-body-projection and delicate sound balancing
duration: ca. 45 min.
original composition by Alvin Lucier (1970)
who’s talking when and where, hip or square, what moves the air ?
In the second incantation of the Reverb.On Series in 2008, DEPART and Richard Eigner devoted themselves to the piece „I Am Sitting In A Room“ by Alvin Lucier. This idiosyncratic electroacoustic composition summons a physical component of compact spaces, their inherent resonance.
A short text, which is selfreferential and recursive both on the room situation and itself, is spoken into a microphone, recorded and fed back into the room very closemouthed in a kind of acoustical mantra until the rooms own resonant frequency is overdubbing the initial signal beyond recognition.
Richard Eigner and Gregor Ladenhauf were responsible for the acoustic implementation of this concept that was first realised in 1969 by American composer Alvin Lucier (*1931).
Together with his DEPARTner Leonhard Lass, who is responsible for the visual translation of the piece, performer Gregor Ladenhauf adds to the piece as voice and screen at the same time. A speaker transforming into a projection screen of his own voice, gradually disappearing like this voice during the course of the composition.
original text:
„I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed.
What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have. ” (Lucier 1970)
“Using the ideas of Alvin Lucier’s piece “I Am Sitting In A Room”, Richard Eigner & DEPART unlocked the secret sounds of Schmiede Hallein’s fabulous spaces.”
,,Every room has its own melody, hiding there until it is made audible.”
„I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed.
What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have. ” (Lucier 1970)
Shown: September 22, 2008 at Schmiede Hallein, Salzburg, Austria
sound installation and soundboard control: Richard Eigner
video projection, programming, setdesign: Leonhard Lass
sound installation and performance: Gregor Ladenhauf
Spy Collectives Iminami
by depart on Januar 3, 2008
Iminami (by the Spycollective) is a multiroom performance installation.
Drained brains swash in narrative tsunamis exhaling from the metamyth of the White Woman.
Audience-swarms with spread waterwings on the tideway from mother to smother get carried away by drowned voices.
This is fishy, oh buoy.
Supported by Steim (Amsterdam), SARC (belfast) and ARGE Nonntal (Salzburg)
Gespraum
by depart on November 3, 2007
“Gespraum”:
pathos of the inanimate in spatium mutans
installation piece (loop: video, sound)
duration: ca. 45 min.
broom, sweep sweep sweep the room.
rumbling & tumbling biedermeier blowup.
Passers-by look through a window into a (projected) rooom, which is undergoing a constant change. It shows an unstable situation that is seemingly stripped bare of temporality and causality. Furniture, books and other objects are in a tilted state or thrown in the air by unnamed forces, suddenly frozen still. Chairs bursting into flames, salt trickling from the ceiling, black beads bubbling up from an orifice in the parquet…
The constellation of objects in the projected room is changing constantly in such a manner that only the outer frame of the room (walls, doors, windows) is keeping still. A moving picture where often the speed of mutation is barely noticeable. Due to the style of production the video has a kind of slightly unreal quality, a doll’s house aesthetics maybe. There is no real reference of size and so an interpretation of the video as a documentary of real events is also constantly in doubt.
A room as an output of the subconscious. The “Gespraum”, a psychoanalytic talk of a room with itself. No tangible story, no plot can be really exemplified here, only suspected and interpreted. There are no actors, so the objects are consequently becoming independent. For want of any human presence, quite literally, “things are in a state of flux”.There is also a scent of the uncanny, the make-believe suspension of gravity, the anxiety and deadlock of romanticism and slightly unreal shadowplay reminding of the vampire genre. The viewer is throwing the voyeuristic glance into a chamber that is free of all subjects and allowed to be the actor itself.
My Myo Mayhem
by depart on Juni 12, 2007
“My Myo Mayhem”:
a platonian cave canem kafkaesque coffin break kammerspiel
performance installation piece for three performers, myoelectrical stimulation, a chicken called Tesla, video & sound.
duration of one cycle ca. 15 minutes
imperial chickensouperpowers for the white room-o-botter
what happens: groups of 10 people are lead into an anteroom where they are ordered to sit and wait. a strange person behind a counter is giving out questionaries and calling people to the desk in random order. this character is mutating over the duration of the whole piece from casual guy to kafkaesque clerk to lunatic to chicken. every 5 minutes one person is admitted to an adjoining room where an attendant is showing them about. a puppet emperor and his rural adventures are presented on screens while a glimpse into an overhead orifice provides an inverse cage perspective on the confetti chicken. the gloomy atmosphere of the first two rooms is followed by an eery transition to the center stage. There, the “emperor” is performing his private little hatching dance, controlled and hardsynced to the installation soundtrack by a mystical myoelectrical device dangling around his neck. after this shocking galvanic experience, the lounge room is a chill out, big brother-like situation with a cctv tablecloth, walls with eyes and gin & tonic served by lovely ladies. the audience members meet again and, while discussing their own experiences, are able to watch others still on the tour and enjoy the joint joyful noises unto the creator from all the performance rooms.
First installment shown at Amsterdam Hogeschool, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Final version first shown at ARGEkultur, Salzburg, Austria
Further installments with slight variations:
Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Dresden/Germany
Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich/Switzerland
Performers: Georg Hobmeier, Gregor Ladenhauf
Concept: DEPART and Senselabor
Video, Sound, Programming, Production Design: DEPART