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INCREASE
Yusuke Nakajima
SOLO 612.43
Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag
Das Nachbild ist eine Illusion. Illusion
vermischt sich mit Realität.
Wenn sie wachsen wird Schönheit
geboren.
The afterimage is an illusion. Illusion
mixes with a reality. When they
increase, beauty is born.
Yusuke Nakajima: Japanese filmmaker.
I am interested in extracting
various phenomena existing in the
world, and picturizing these. In addition,
I sometimes perform a performance
with a video and sound.
J 2008, Video, 7 min,
German Premiere
Director, script, photography,
animation, editing, music
Yusuke Nakajima
Distribution Yusuke Nakajima
Der Heldenbariton Hans Hotter macht 1943 eine Einspielung von Schuberts
Winterreise in Berlin. Zur selben Zeit zieht sich der Kessel um Stalingrad
zu. (...) Schneetreiben. solo - 612.43 ist die Nightshot-Dokumentation
– man kennt diese Art Bilder vor allem von dem ersten Golfkrieg –
gleich ein »unplugged reinactment« von der Installation 612.43WEISS in
selbiger Installation in einem Moment wo alle Geräte stehen bleiben: Es
ist Nacht im Frühjahr 2006. Ich stehe in meiner Installation, habe das Video
angehalten und performe allein die Erinnerung an meine digitale Installation
vor dem leeren, weißen Bildschirm. Dabei nimmt mich eine
kleine Sony-DV-Kamera im Nightshot-Modus mit Autofokus im Hochformat
auf.
In 1943, the heroic baritone Hans Hotter made a recording of Schubert's
Winterreise in Berlin. At the same time, the Germans were closing in on
Stalingrad. (...) Snow flurry. solo - 612.43 is a night shot documentation –
we are mainly familiar with these images from the first Gulf war – equal
to an »unplugged re-enactment« of the installation 612.43WEISS in the
same installation at a moment when all gadgets are paused: It is a spring
night in 2006. I am standing inside my installation, have paused the video
and, alone, perform the memory of my digital installation against the
empty, white screen. While doing so, a small Sony-DV camera films in
night shot mode on autofocus in portrait format.
Jan-Peter E. R. Sonntag is an artist focusing mainly on media art-based
room installations. He studied fine arts, art history, music theory, composition,
philosophy and cognitive science and, in 2002, founded N-solab. He
is a cofounder of »hARTware-projects« now »HMKV«, »oh Ton« , »unerhört«
and the sound-art-edition »HORCH«. He received several grants and
participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide. In 2008 he got the Haupstadtkulturfond
grant for »e-topia«, and was awarded the »German Sound
Art Prize«, the »Cynet Art Award«, for a mobile architecture »ohrenstrand
mobil« and he opened the Ars Electronica in Linz with his sonArc::project.
The book and DVD of this project has been released at the »Akademie der
Künste« in Berlin Dec 08.
D 2009, Video, 11 min, World Premiere
Director, script, photography, animation, editing, music
Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag
Music Schubert / Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag
Distribution Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag
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