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100 Spiegelsitzungen/24 Stunden

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Looking into one's own eyes one gazes into the unknown. Once staring into emptiness has become almost programmatic, the trip behind the mirror landscape can begin.
With Carroll's Alice in one's backpack and Lacan in the the pocket of one's pants, one can dive in, into a landscape with neither land nor qualities. Enclosed in the mirror. Within the frame, immersed in a counter-landscape, in a garden decked out with a manifold of arbitrarily chosen actors from the arsenal of private acquaintances. A piece of reality, that could look like this but also otherwise.
The "Blue Box", the most strongly deterritorialised element in this respect, the metaphor for the application of coding mechanisms on a visual plane (a space devoid of place, shadow or identity), an anti-landscape, with neither land nor qualities, suggested itself for the realisation of this project, as already for "Decoding:Recoding", another project about "dissolution through sameness in emptiness".
Here, the "Blue Box" - method, in which by means of intense illumination something like the visualisation of coding systematics becomes possible, allowing the deliberate cultivation of the "Blue Box"garden with literally countless possibilities, is implicitly present without the expense of its actual employment.

100 performers invited to the mirror sitting, set into the garden of the mirror landscape. 100 persons from my personal environment, who draw a portrait of themselves by the way in which they gaze at the uncertainty behind the mirror landscape. The individual personality is challenged to an unusual degree by the reduction of the possibilities for action to mere looking. Every tiny gesture, a slight twitch of the eyelids, a fleeting inhalation from the corners of the mouth, a nervous wobbling of the flesh of the cheeks, arouses the attention of the observer, turns the participant into a portrait subject, raises the question about the meaning of the film, in which the performer/portrait subject seems to be inserted. A 16mm film, generally of the genre of educational films from the 1910's to the 1960's, is chosen by the participant on the basis of its theme, and thus constitutes the first self-description. The projection of the film at one's back, while one is robbed of the possibility of watching, insofar as one exercises the required self-discipline, follows directions, doesn't sneak a backward look from the corner of one's eye, throws one even more back upon oneself. Perhaps the request to abstain evokes in one's own eyes the arising of a picture puzzle to counteract the temptation of the world of images.

Finally the dissolution in emptiness leads, at least for the recipient, to a redoubling, since each film was chosen twice, whereby pairs with the same "landscape" ingredients were formed, which are again differentiated through the addition of an external quotation, which reflects the whole process again on the linguistic plane.

 


001 Nikolaus Wostry
Der Feuerwehrmann
21:00:00 - 21:15:28
002 Chrono Popp
Die Wolle
21:15:28 - 21:25:52
003 Paul A.Leitner
Reichtum der Wälder
21:25:52 - 21:40:41
004 Martin Kay
Rollende Welt
21:40:41 - 21:52:47
005 Ronald Pohl
Schneeweisschen und Rosenrot
21:52:47 - 22:08:37
006 Fritz Widhalm
Fox-Tönende Wochenschau
22:08:37 - 22:21:11
007 Stefan Müller
Es brennt
22:21:11 - 22:31:32
008 Georg Salner
Massage
22:31:32 - 22:44:35
009 Werner Bechter
Stillen eines Säuglings
22:44:35 - 22:54:46
010 Victoria Tremmel
Die Stechmücke
22:54:46 - 23:08:32
011Edgar Honetschläger
Flösser und Mikado
23:08:32 - 23:18:57
012 Vera Redlich
Gaswerk
23:18:57 - 23:28:31
013 Bettina Unger
Rettungsschwimmen
23:28:31 - 23:45:26
014 Christoph Steinbrener
Karl Valentin als Philatelist
23:45:26 - 23:59:48
015 Gillian Kay
Nordafrika
23:59:48 - 00:11:15
016 Julius Deutschbauer
Mit dem Motorrad nach Italien
00:11:15 - 00:26:44
017 Christian Steinbacher
Privataufnahmen-Kindertheater
00:26:44 - 00:43:34
018 Martin Loew-Cadonna
Softporno
00:43:34 - 00:57:57
019 Thomas Feuerstein
Produktivität schaftt Arbeitsplätze
00:57:57 - 01:14:01
020 Manfred Swoboda
Privataufnahmen 1929-38
01:14:01 - 01:27:04
021 Elisabeth Grübl
Physikalische Versuche
01:27:04 - 01:45:07
022 Thomas Reinagl
Softporno
01:45:07 - 01:59:19
023 Wolfgang Podgorschek
Es brennt
01:59:19 - 02:09:41
024 Sabine Groschup
Symbiosen-Tierleben im Mittelmeer
02:09:41 - 02:24:47
025 Georg Weckwerth
Ein Haus wird gebaut
02:24:47 - 02:40:38
026 Li Yan Ping
Pferde in Arizona
02:40:38 - 02:57:48
027 Oswald Egger
Winter
02:57:48 - 03:14:04
028 Katharina Hinsberg
Verbreitung von Samen
03:14:04 - 03:29:47
029 Michael Kienzer
Mittelmeerhafen
03:29:47 - 03:39:11
030 Andrea Sodomka
Landkartenhochbild
03:39:11 - 03:53:32
031 Martin Breindl
Stahlwerk-Thomasbirne
03:53:32 - 04:07:58
032 Clemens Gadenstätter
Entstehung von Eisbergen
04:07:58 - 04:23:39
033 Lisa Spalt
Entwicklungsformen v. Schmetterlingen
04:23:39 - 04:39:48
034 Ilse Kilic
Wildschwein und Hausschwein
04:39:48 - 04:52:48
035 Brigitte Prinzgau
Rote Waldameise
04:52:48 - 05:08:22
036 Reinhold Aumaier
Fische im Korallenmeer
05:08:22 - 05:23:03
037 Dieter Sperl
Lachmöve
05:23:03 - 05:35:39
038 Norbert Math
Störche und Rotwild
05:35:39 - 05:55:04
039 Chiara Minchio
Leibeserziehungen
05:55:04 - 06:11:22
040 Andreas Leikauf
Schutzfarbe im Tierreich
06:11:22 - 06:21:33
041 Christian Wachter
Rettungsschwimmen
06:21:33 - 06:35:04
042 Petra Ganglbauer
Afrikanische Dickhäuter
06:35:04 - 06:47:41
043 Christine Huber
Salzbergwerk
06:47:41 - 07:01:30
044 Karin Spielhofer
Suffer Little Children
07:01:30 - 07:14:56
045 Erich Wolfesberger
Landschaftsaufnahmen 1929-31
07:14:56 - 07:28:42
046 Susanne Neuburger
Schischule-Wedeltechniken
07:28:42 - 07:42:00
047 Barbara Gassner
Ein Bauer bestellt sein Feld
07:42:00 - 07:58:28
048 Manfred Grübl
Steinkohleabbau
07:58:28 - 08:13:52
049 Josef Ondracek
Privataufnahmen 1929-38
08:13:52 - 08:29:26
050 Doris Hassler
Steinkohleabbau-Trickfilm
08:29:26 - 08:43:45
051 Michael Gumhold
Schneeweisschen und Rosenrot
08:43:45 - 08:58:44
052 Astrid Becksteiner
Mit dem Motorrad nach Italien
08:58:44 - 09:13:58
053 Klaus Pamminger
Fox-Tönende Wochenschau
09:13:58 - 09:25:56
054 Nicole Finsinger
Nordafrika
09:25:56 - 09:36:36
055 Norbert Brunner
Schischule-Wedeltechniken
09:36:36 - 09:54:25
056 Heinrich Dunst
Suffer Little Children
09:54:25 - 10:08:50
057 Susanne Guggenberger
Privataufnahmen-Kindertheater
10:08:50 - 10:24:36
058 Agnieszka Baniewska
Flösser und Mikado
10:24:36 - 10:37:2
059 Amer Abbas
Landschaftsaufnahmen 1929-31
10:37:24 - 10:52:35
060 Andreas Scharf
Rote Waldameise
10:52:35 - 11:10:12
061 Hermann Hendrich
Physikalische Versuche
11:10:12 - 11:25:47
062 Ulrich Schlotmann
Massage
11:25:47 - 11:41:28
063 Ulf Stolterfoht
Bergsteigen
11:41:28 - 11:53:52
064 Elisabeth Breckner
Stillen eines Säuglings
11:53:52 - 12:10:33
065 Liesl Ujvary
Der Feuerwehrmann
12:10:33 - 12:22:53
066 Herbert J.Wimmer
Gaswerk
12:22:53 - 12:33:37
067 Christoph Bochdansky
Der Dirigent
12:33:37 - 12:42:36
068 Sanna Tobias
Produktivität schafft Arbeitsplätze
12:42:36 - 13:01:46
069 F.E.Rakuschan
Karl Valentin als Philatelist
13:01:46 - 13:19:00
070 Johann Schmit
Reichtum der Wälder
13:19:00 - 13:34:50
071 Iris Nina Landsgesell
Der Elefant im Zoo
13:34:50 - 13:48:25
072 Monika Faber
Die Wolle
13:48:25 - 14:00:33
073 Mirko Tobias Schäfer
Rollende Welt
14:00:33 - 14:13:26
074 Gertrude Moser-Wagner
Salzbergwerk
14:13:26 - 14:28:45
075 Peter Pessl
Pferde in Arizona
14:28:45 - 14:44:14
076 Hansjörg Zauner
Die Stechmücke
14:44:14 - 14:58:47
077 Matthias Fuchs
Schutzfarbe im Tierreich
14:58:47 - 15:14:03
078 Mathias Goldmann
Die Lachmöve
15:14:03 - 15:27:43
079 Dieter Buchhart
Ein Haus wird gebaut
15:27:43 - 15:46:3
080 Ferdinand Schmatz
Landkartenhochbild
15:46:30 - 16:03:00
081 Thomas Schäfer
Entstehung von Eisbergen
16:03:00 - 16:13:36
082 Elisabeth Zimmermann
Symbiosen-Tierleben im Mittelmeer
16:13:36 - 16:31:01
083 Jochen Traar
Winter
16:31:01 - 16:48:37
084 Gerhard Jaschke
Fische im Korallenmeer
16:48:37 - 17:06:45
085 Petra Coronato
Steinkohleabbau
17:06:45 - 17:25:46
086 Gerald Nestler
Entwicklungsformen v. Schmetterlingen
17:25:46 - 17:40:54
087 Werner Herbst
Bergsteigen
17:40:54 - 17:53:29
088 Franz Türtscher
Verbreitung von Samen
17:53:29 - 18:06:45
089 Ingo Nussbaumer
Stahlwerk-Thomasbirne
18:06:45 - 18:21:43
090 August Black
Der Elefant im Zoo
18:21:43 - 18:41:19
091 Nita Tandon
Afrikanische Dickhäuter
18:41:19 - 18:56:50
092 Christine Citti
Wildschwein und Hausschwein
18:56:50 - 19:09:36
093 Peter Wechsler
Ein Obstbaum wird gepflanzt
19:09:36 - 19:20:31
094 Sylvia Eckermann
Steinkohleabbau-Trickfilm
19:20:31 - 19:38:31
095 Lucas Gehrmann
Mittelmeerhafen
19:38:31 - 19:55:47
096 Christof Cargnelli
Der Dirigent
19:55:47 - 20:05:59
097 Eri Bakladi
Leibeserziehungen
20:05:59 - 20:19:08
098 Kristian Katt
Störche und Rotwild
20:19:08 - 20:31:08
099 Simon Frearson
Ein Bauer bestellt sein Feld
20:31:08 - 20:43:16
100 Martin Skladal
Ein Obstbaum wird gepflanzt
20:43:16 - 21:00:00

 

 

 

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