#1-21 (2004/2011)
CH/CN 2004/2011 / Luminous element, Videostills, 150 cm x 24 cm x 6cm
#1-21 (Luminous element)
2004/2011
Material: Videostills, DV, colour
Technology: Duraclear on acrylic light box with protective laminate, LEDs dimmable
Size: 150 x 24 x 6 cm (length x height x depth)
Edition: 3 (+ 1 AP)
Synopsis
In #1-21, I try to approach my intercultural experiences during my stays in China in 1987 and 2004: The distanced view from two hotel room windows into the street canyons of Shanghai and Wusi provides a (supposed) overview where experiencing everyday life in China at eye level often does not. This oscillation between distance and proximity creates a multi-layered and dense network that, changing in space and time, loses itself in the darkness.
This immersion as well as a diving into ‚the other context’ can be seen as prerequisites for the demands of the French sinologist and philosopher François Jullien for a sentient-intuitive understanding. In Der Umweg über China - ein Ortswechsel des Denkens he describes how the change of perspective between Western and Eastern thinking makes it possible to view one's own cultural context, shaped by Greek philosophy, from a different standpoint - and to put it into perspective in order to be able to approach one another.
#1-21 (Publication / Edition)
CH/CN 2004 / Stills on edited DV-Material / 6.0 cm x 4.8 cm / colour
Video still series accompanying the text More than 1000 words? On the usage of audio-visual media in research
Concept & realisation
Flavia Caviezel
Production
Co-Production with the Institut für Theorie der Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich (ith), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich
Publication
31. Das Magazin des Instituts für Theorie der Gestaltung und Kunst ith, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich (Ed.). ith: Zurich, No. 05, Dec. 2004, p. 73-80.
Edition
2004/2010
Pigment print on Hahnemühle handmade paper
Series of 5: 104 cm x 19 cm
Edition: 10
Single picture: 100 cm x 80 cm
Edition: 3
Exhibition view Kunstraum Sandra Romer Chur
