[spectre] monochrom's Zeigerpointer: Exhibition in Ljubljana
das ende der nahrungskette
jg at monochrom.at
Wed Jul 6 12:14:02 CEST 2011
'The wonderful world of absence' presents
monochrom's collection of so-called 'Zeigerpointers'.
Until an official term for the media phenomenon
'Zeigerpointer' has been found, this place holder
describes a widespread form of representation
used by the print media. This has until now
neither been perceived nor defined as a specific
form. With the collection (
http://www.monochrom.at/zeigerpointer ) and the
sequence of images 'Zeigerpointer', monochrom
wants to contribute to the examination of the
'Zeigerpointer' as a category of representational aesthetics.
The 'Zeigerpointer' is defined as images (in the
scope of printed media reporting) of crime
scenes, locations of accidents as well as other
locations in which some kind of thing has
happened that can no longer be seen because the
reported happening is already over and no traces
are visible (either because none were produced or
because they were already removed during the
reinstatement of the status quo). Because in
these cases there is nothing to take a picture
of, the photo journalist generally asks certain
people eyewitnesses, concerned parties or
somebody in charge to point to the spot where
'it' happened. 'Zeigerpointers' can unambiguously
be defined with a couple of criteria they have to
fulfil and therefore distinguish them from other
pictures of people pointing at something. The
reported event must not be visible through any
other means than the pointing at the spot where 'it' happened.
monochrom has been collecting such images for
several years in the form of newspaper clippings
(which ideally should also contain the captions),
at first from Austrian print media, later some
international exhibits were also added. They are
published on their website (after diligently
ascertaining their validity) and in the form of
e-mailings and word of mouth we regularly call for entries.
With the project 'The wonderful world of absence'
monochrom wants to present the findings of this
media-cultural archaeology to the public for the
first time, also changing the media, in the form
of an exhibition. The exhibits will be selected examples painted in oil.
Zeigerpointer project page.
http://www.monochrom.at/zeigerpointer/
Where is the exhibition? At Aksioma Project Space in Ljubljana, Slovenia!
http://www.aksioma.org/monochrom/index.html
Exhibition: July 6 - 22, 2011
Opening and Performance: July 6, 2011 at 8 pm.
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