land in sight! / land?
[2011#02] Multimedia-based installation / performance Project description In a container1, of which the doors are opened at an angle of ca. 45°, there are 13 vacuum cleaners2. At the end of the container there is a projection screen (canvas)3, onto which is projected a film (video)4 by means of a video projector attached to the container ceiling; for the projection of sound5 appropriate equipment for playback is necessary. The vacuum cleaners ( see above) are individually supplied with electricity and can individually be turned on and off by using a special keyboard; they are 'looking' towards the container's exit; at regular inter- vals they will run driven simultaneously, and - in various combinations – successively, by an automatic circuit ( switch box6). A likeness7 is at- tached to the vacuum cleaners. A red carpet is laid out along the container and extends about 2.5 meters out into the area in front of the latter. Access into the container is blocked on both sides of the red carpet between the carpet and the half-open doors by (barbed) wire8 "for mobile barriers". Visitors (f/m) enter and exit the container through a metal detector.9 To the right and to the left of the red carpet and behind the metal detector there are 2 other "faceless" vacuum cleaners.10 Inside the container - along the side walls to the left and right - are standing 2 long rows of books.11 More details and installative elements are imaginable ... 1 Measure of the container — L: 12,0 m x W: 2,4 m x H: 2,5 m. 2 That is13 Hoover® Vacuum Cleaners representing actually living and ruling “dictators”; # 1-6 on the left and # 7-12 on the right side of a red carpet, # 13 is positioned on the red carpet itself at ca. 2 m to the end of the container ( see footnote # 9 below). 3 Alternatively, the playback/replay could take place on a large flat screen. 4 Content: "Land on the horizon", filmed from a boat slightly moved by the waves of the sea; duration: about 30 minutes. - Location: Kobe either itself or Marseilles (twin town of Kobe!). 5 Sound derives from other sources than the film; it consists of sound of waves, which incessantly hit the rocky coast. 6 Into which a kind of "dictator's song" is 'mechanically composed'. Alternatively, the live performance of this kind of "dictator's song" through appropriate "keyboard" is possible. 7 In each case, the "face" of an actually ruling dictator, printed on a round disc of metal (aluminium composite panels / DIBOND®: (#13) اا [Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libya], (#12) 김일성 [ АляксандрРыгоравічЛукашэнка Kim Il-sung, North Korea], (#11) Fidel Castro [Cuba], (#10) [Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko, Belarus], (#9) دا یا د
land in sight! / land?
[2011#02] Multimedia-based installation / performance Project description In a container1, of which the doors are opened at an angle of ca. 45°, there are 13 vacuum cleaners2. At the end of the container there is a projection screen (canvas)3, onto which is projected a film (video)4 by means of a video projector attached to the container ceiling; for the projection of sound5 appropriate equipment for playback is necessary. The vacuum cleaners ( see above) are individually supplied with electricity and can individually be turned on and off by using a special keyboard; they are 'looking' towards the container's exit; at regular inter- vals they will run driven simultaneously, and - in various combinations – successively, by an automatic circuit ( switch box6). A likeness7 is at- tached to the vacuum cleaners. A red carpet is laid out along the container and extends about 2.5 meters out into the area in front of the latter. Access into the container is blocked on both sides of the red carpet between the carpet and the half-open doors by (barbed) wire8 "for mobile barriers". Visitors (f/m) enter and exit the container through a metal detector.9 To the right and to the left of the red carpet and behind the metal detector there are 2 other "faceless" vacuum cleaners.10 Inside the container - along the side walls to the left and right - are standing 2 long rows of books.11 More details and installative elements are imaginable ... 1 Measure of the container — L: 12,0 m x W: 2,4 m x H: 2,5 m. 2 That is13 Hoover® Vacuum Cleaners representing actually living and ruling “dictators”; # 1-6 on the left and # 7-12 on the right side of a red carpet, # 13 is positioned on the red carpet itself at ca. 2 m to the end of the container ( see footnote # 9 below). 3 Alternatively, the playback/replay could take place on a large flat screen. 4 Content: "Land on the horizon", filmed from a boat slightly moved by the waves of the sea; duration: about 30 minutes. - Location: Kobe either itself or Marseilles (twin town of Kobe!). 5 Sound derives from other sources than the film; it consists of sound of waves, which incessantly hit the rocky coast. 6 Into which a kind of "dictator's song" is 'mechanically composed'. Alternatively, the live performance of this kind of "dictator's song" through appropriate "keyboard" is possible. 7 In each case, the "face" of an actually ruling dictator, printed on a round disc of metal (aluminium composite panels / DIBOND®: (#13) اا [Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libya], (#12) 김일성 [ АляксандрРыгоравічЛукашэнка Kim Il-sung, North Korea], (#11) Fidel Castro [Cuba], (#10) [Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko, Belarus], (#9) دا یا د