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BLOWN-UP
2020
multimedia installation
flag 3 × 5 m, wind machine Ø 120 cm controlled by frequency converter and Arduino, surveillance camera, monitor
Bloom, Düsseldorf
A flying BLACK-WHITE-BLACK flag fills the space that can be viewed through a large showcase window.
The surveillance camera directed at the flag transmits the image to the monitor installed in the window.
On the monitor there is a close-up motion of white stripe on the black background.
Like by the video LINEMENT, where the movement of the white stripe conditioned by programming, in BLOWN-UP the fan rotation is programmed, which constant change in wind force affects the movement of the flag.
A glazed space with a flying flag and its video duplicate itself becomes a screen showing the process of image creation: the movement of the white stripe on a black background.
Transforming video elements into real objects and then returning them to video reality is what interests me and what I keep working with.
“… Anna Sokolova on the other hand let a black-and-white flag flutter in the exhibition room and lent Bloom its own move. However, it wasn’t the wind stirring up the flag but a ventilator behind, incidentally an impressive object entirely in black. To promote the reality of this abstract flag via the media, in the style of Nam June Paik, a camera was set up in front of it and gave a live broadcast of what is happening here (the flowing flag), as an abstract image to the external space: reality TV for a program of autonomy and dissolving borders. ” – Georg Imdahl from the catalogue of the exhibition series Blow
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