[rohrpost] Documentary & REVIEWS 'Time Fades' Berlin Kulturforum 26.01.2008 & 'Broken Time Fades' Ahrenshoop Kurhaus 02.02.2008

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Documentary & REVIEWS

'Time Fades'

VIDEO INSTALLATION by PHILIPP GEIST

BERLIN KULTURFORUM 26.01.2008 'Lange Nacht der Museen 'Zeit'

During the 'Long Night of the Museums', which is a special event taking place twice a year when most of Berlin´s museums are open till 2 a.m., the Berlin-based artist Philipp Geist showed his video installation 'time fades' at the Kulturforum. In his installation Geist interprets the themes of space and time. He avoids using canvasses and projects directly on parts of the façade of the architecture and on transparent grounds like sheets of gauze and fog. The result is an interplay between the concrete, tangible wall and the transparent, dissolving ground of projection. This concept refers to the characteristics of history as experienced in a museum: history and the notion of it mainly develop subjectively in the mind of the onlooker. The representations of history are being animated in the moment of the visitor´s reflections. The dissolving projection ground symbolizes not only the fragmentary knowledge and understanding of the life in the past, which is to be completed, but also the memory which must be saved from disappearing and dissolving. Thus, Geist develops a dialogue with the location, his artistic work and the people who are entering and leaving the building. The visitor himself becomes part of the projected image at the threshold between the outside and inside.

Starting point of his video work were the collections of the museums, which Philipp Geis had filmed and photographed. The ancient art objects, as for example statues, sculptures, busts, paintings, gold decoration and mosaics in  Rome and Berlin, were transformed with modern digital techniques (hard- and software) to manipulate the filmed images by  abstracting, recolouring and overlaying them. Elements of the art pieces were separated from their context and arranged in new picture variants and artistic compositions. In the video installation, art pieces of the same and different epochs were combined. This conceptualisation emphasizes the simultaneous  xistence of successive times and events in the visitor´s mind and the coexistence of different epochs in the historical knowledege of our time. The collections of the museums in Berlin are experienced from a contemporary perspective and interpreted in an artistic way.

Photos/ installation views
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/sets/72157603811793123/

Documentary Video by Patrick Heeren
Short Version (QuickTime / 29mb)

http://www.videogeist.de/GeistTimeFadesShort.mov

Documentary Video by Patrick Heeren
Long Version (QuickTime / 142mb)

http://www.videogeist.de/GeistTimeFadesLong.mov

Presse (Reviews)
http://www.videogeist.de/Presse.html

Project text (english)
http://www.videogeist.de/Geist260108LangeNacht_MuseenEng.pdf

Projekttext (Deutsch)
http://www.videogeist.de/Geist260108LangeNacht_Museen.pdf

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Documentary & REVIEWS

'Broken Time Lines'

video installation at the Kurhaus (Ahrenshoop) by Philipp Geist 02.02.2008
Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop
Exhibition: 'Distances - Things and Places in current Photography and New Media.
Part One: Times and Places
curator: Boris Becker (cologne)

The Berlin-based artist Philipp Geist (1976) showed his video installation 'Broken Time Lines' on the occasion of the exhibition 'Times and Places' at Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop. Geist`s installation interprets the themes of space and time. In his concept, he avoids using canvasses and projects directly on the window front of the building, the old Kurhaus, which has already been closed for 15 years. The result is an interplay between the derelict building and the abstract, geometrical video films. Thus, Geist develops a dialogue with the location, the architecture and his artistic work. He creates a pictorial, abstract imagery at the computer which refers to organic-microscopic structures and physical processes. By displaying depth and three-dimensionality, the work symbolises the constantly developing, enlarging space of continuing time lines, and represents the complex networks emerging from different spatial components spreading in the course of time. Geometrical, spatial forms like squares, cubes, perforated planes, lines and rays, overlay each other in an on-going process and build up a complete picture in order to dissolve it right away. The various elements create a complex architecture of images which is always in a state of flux. By these means, the video installation refers to the derelict state of the Old Kurhaus, which was built in 1970 as a prestigious object and will be demolished in the near future. It is supposed to be replaced by a large and modern hotel.

Photos/ installation views
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/sets/72157603847316755/

Documentary Movie (QuickTime / 51mb) by Philipp Geist
http://www.videogeist.de/geist_ahrenshoop_kurhaus.mov

Project text (english)
http://www.videogeist.de/Geist_Install_Kurhaus2008eng.pdf

Projekttext (Deutsch)
http://www.videogeist.de/Geist_Install_Kurhaus2008.pdf

Presse (Reviews)
http://www.videogeist.de/ahrenshoop_kurhaus_presse.pdf

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more installations

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video installation 'Time Lines' in Rome / Palazzo delle Esposizioni 2007
http://www.videogeist.de/geist_time_lines_RomePdE.html
http://www.videogeist.de/DW_PdE_euromaxx.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/collections/72157603847322929/

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a:minima 22 - live cinema
curated my mia makela (solu)
new media - art now

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