The Cage of Time

FILE 2024 | Installations
International Electronic Language Festival
Interactive installation that presents a kinetic instrument object and virtual reality glasses, functioning as a device that animates the illusion of the passage of time in virtual space. In the fabric of existence, time weaves a cage around our ephemeral moments, limiting our perceptions of the past, present and future. By embracing this paradox, we may discover that the cage of time becomes the crucible where the alchemy of experience transforms our understanding of existence.

Bio

Anna Vasof is a multi-award-winning artist who focuses on filmmaking, short videos, and time-based sculptures. VRinMotion is an artistic research project based at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in Austria that investigates how features of stop-motion animation and motion capture can be combined with virtual reality to enrich current artistic discourse.

Credits

VRinMotion Team: Franziska Bruckner, Christoph Schmid, Clemens Gürtler, Matthias Husinsky, Christian Munk, Julian Salhofer, Stefan Nebel, Vrääth Öhner.
Concept by: Anna Vasof.

Winterreise
Captured moments are central in Kicsiny’s installations. His characters are simultaneously frozen still and in motion. In some works this paradox becomes literal, as in the installation Winterreise that depicts two priests skiing in different directions using the same skis, which makes forward motion impossible. The figures seem lost, isolated and their journey endless. In their hands they hold Jacob’s staffs, navigational instruments used in the 17th century. The work alludes to the continuous search for one’s place in life.

Paradoxal Sleep
File Festival
O projeto “Paradoxal Sleep” integra uma série de obras na qual grandes cubos robotizados, medindo 2,25 m3, funcionam como estruturas flutuantes usadas como plataformas para vários projetos multimídia e performances. No FILE 2012, a equipe da NXI GESTATIO apresentará um único cubo que irá se mover nos espaços expositivos. O cubo reajustará constantemente sua posição medindo a distância entre as paredes ao redor.

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The “Paradoxal Sleep” project integrates a series of works in which large robotic cubes, measuring 2.25 m3, function as floating structures used as platforms for various multimedia projects and performances. At FILE 2012, the NXI GESTATIO team will present a single cube that will move in the exhibition spaces. The cube will constantly readjust its position by measuring the distance between the surrounding walls.

parallaxis
In a new moving-image work by Melbourne-based artist and architect Matthew Bird, two bodies move across the land, working with large cylindrical instruments. We witness them map and survey a terrain analogous to universal physical and psychological locations, each revolution marking a paradoxical attempt to pin an earthly position through perpetual movement. Playing on the human need to understand our relationship to the people and places around us, Parallaxis considers the potential for architectural processes and measurements to act as a foundation for structures of understanding.

Le Paradoxe de Xerox
La mode interrogative à l’ère des devoirs super intelligents. Le « paradoxe de Xerox » est l’effet inverse de la technologie. Craignant un avenir sans papier, une enquête de Xerox Parc a conduit, entre autres, à l’IUG (Graphical User Interface) qui, à son tour, a entraîné une augmentation substantielle de la production de matériel imprimé.

La Vie En Rose II
“There is a saying that life is a thorny path. The title of the work, La Vie En Rose, reveals the situation paradoxically. Life doesn’t always go as planned. Going forward in life can be a struggle comparable to walking through impenetrable brambles in a dark forest. Here, both big and small difficulties we face on our journey are evoked by the thorns growing out of the walls. These elements also recall the my childhood memories in the countryside, picking up berries and getting pricked by their thorns while the character in the work represents our own selves, as we must overcome these obstacles.
In this second version of La Vie en Rose, I wanted to express a change in the mind of the main character.” JeeYoung Lee

Lightning Ride
“With Lightning Ride, it is now poles of technology, organics and mysticism that collide with  electricity as a connecting point. The video is produced from excerpts of “Taser Certifications”, a sort of ceremony authorizing in the United States the use of Tasers in the condition of being tased by someone else. Filtered with the Photoshop’s “oil painting effect”, slowed down and accompanied by a disturbing soundtrack, the succeeding images show us bodies and faces whose deformations and positions evoke a feeling of pain as well as a Christian ecstacy. Everything unfolds as if the miracle of electricity, symbol of the rationalization of the world, revived paradoxically an aspiration to transcendence, antipodes joining each other and disappearing in profit of a new map of possibilities.” (Sarah Ihler-Meyer)

A soma de todas as possibilidades
A escultura suspensa se desdobra em um aparente processo infinito de metamorfose definido por relações matemáticas. Seu movimento lento e meditativo destaca a relação estreita e paradoxal entre o cálculo das probabilidades e o inesperado da experiência, entre o tempo e a percepção, o movimento e a finitude, a forma e o fluxo.

Schlacht
Schlacht ist eine Konfrontation zweier physischer Akteure: einerseits Hassan Razak, Spezialist für Bodypercussion und andererseits Pierre Cartonnet, Spezialist für Akrobatik. Diese Konfrontation ist ein komplexer, paradoxer und mehrdeutiger Kampf. Ist es ein realistischer Tanz oder ein choreografischer Kampf? Ist es ein von beiden Teilen akzeptierter Vertrag oder eine einseitige Gewalt? Ist es ein Narrenspiel? Wird die Gewalt erfahren oder gewährt? Masochist oder Sadist?

Parallaxis
In einer neuen Bewegtbildarbeit des in Melbourne lebenden Künstlers und Architekten Matthew Bird bewegen sich zwei Körper mit großen zylindrischen Instrumenten über das Land. Wir sehen, wie sie ein Terrain kartieren und vermessen, das den universellen physischen und psychischen Orten entspricht. Jede Revolution markiert einen paradoxen Versuch, eine irdische Position durch ständige Bewegung zu bestimmen. Parallaxis spielt mit dem menschlichen Bedürfnis, unsere Beziehung zu den Menschen und Orten um uns herum zu verstehen, und betrachtet das Potenzial architektonischer Prozesse und Messungen als Grundlage für Strukturen des Verstehens.

Paranoid Panopticum

Entering The Paranoid Panopticum you will run across your own fixation on control. While you will be able to control the visual by mirror and video- projection, a shift in the perception of reality takes place. Controlling changes into fear of being controlled, maximizing control becomes its own threat. In the Paranoid Panopticum you are haunted by your own mirrored projections. You can play with your own projection in a paradox based on the myth of Echo, Narcissus and his mirrored image. At the moment where Narcissus commits suicide, the mirrored image of the visitor is ‘suicided’. At this point the story starts over again.

SCHRÖDINGER’S BABY
Schrödinger’s Baby(2019/20), TZUSOO alludes to the popular thought experiment devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. Schrödinger proposed a scenario in which a cat is locked in a box with an unstable radioactive atom that could potentially begin to emit radiation and release a toxic gas. However, there is no way to say with certainty when or indeed whether this will happen without opening the box. The result is a paradox, with Schrödinger asserting that the cat enters a state of superposition that makes it impossible to say whether it is alive or dead.The South Korean artist translates this famous paradox into the reality of her own life, creating a digital baby in virtual space. Based on her inner grappling with potential motherhood, TZUSOO bought the digital model of a developing embryo, refining it according to her own ideas. She is free to determine the sex, skin colour and other characteristics or to dispense with all specifications so as to avoid stereotyping. In Schrödinger’s Baby, TZUSOO thus discuss core aspects of her work including reflection on gender and origin for which she also draws on her personal experience as a South Korean artist in Europe.

Guerre

A struggle that seems to be of particular relevance today. A metaphorical title, poetry of the line and of colour, that highlights the challenge that each of the parties represents. A kind of symbolic correspondence that flirts with our world, with our history, our human condition. War opens up perspectives of matter, a struggle both real and poetic that blends lines and directions, inscribing the trace, the hue, in the flesh of the dancing body but also in a seductive paradox between line and colour.

A paradoxical piece of the Astrum
Benjamin (Ben) Sack is an American artist, known for his pen and ink drawings of imaginary, complex cityscapes. He went to Virginia Commonwealth University and earned his BFA in 2011. Benjamin Sack lives and works in Leesburg, Virginia, a town just outside of Washington D.C. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011 with a degree in Fine Art.

Last Child in the Woods
In her work, Melanie Bonajo examines the paradoxes inherent to ideas of comfort with a strong sense for community, equality, and body-politics. Through her videos, performances, photographs and installations, she studies subjects related to how technological advances and commoditybased pleasures increase feelings of alienation, removing a sense of belonging in an individual. Captivated by concepts of the divine, Bonajo explores the spiritual emptiness of her generation, examines peoples’ shifting relationship with nature and tries to understand existential questions by reflecting on our domestic situation, ideas around classification, concepts of home, gender and attitudes towards value.

梅拉妮·柏娜桥
progress
Melanie Bonajo exams the paradoxes inherent in our future-based ideas of comfort. Through her photographs, performances, videos and installations Bonajo examines subjects related to progress that remove from the individual a sense of belonging and looks at how technological advances and commodity-based pleasures increase feelings of alienation within the individual. Captivated by concepts of the divine, she explores the spiritual emptiness of her generation, examines peoples’ shifting relationship with nature and tries to understand existential questions by looking at our domestic situation, idea’s around classification, concepts of home, gender and attitudes towards value.

Bataille
Bataille is a confrontation between two physical actors : on one hand Hassan Razak, specialist of body percussion and on the other hand Pierre Cartonnet, specialist of acrobatics. This confrontation is a complex, paradoxical and ambiguous battle. Is it a realistic dance or a choreographic fight ? Is it a contract accepted by both parts or a unilateral violence ? Is it a fool’s game ? Is the violence undergone or granted ? Masochist or sadist ?

Islas resonantes

c’est un des apanages de la musique minimaliste basée sur des sons longuement tenus, lorsqu’elle est conçue de manière adéquate et irriguée par une réelle inspiration, que d’être susceptible de plonger l’auditeur dans un état second, une sorte de rêve éveillé qui décuple paradoxalement l’acuité de son écoute et lui permet de percevoir les détails les plus infimes et les nuances les plus subtiles de ce qui lui est donné à entendre. c’est à une aventure de ce type que nous convie éliane radigue avec « l’île re-sonante », jusqu’à des confins poétiques qui n’appartiennent qu’à son univers musical.

si cette pièce a été composée pour être écoutée d’une traite et qu’aucun effet de rupture n’y est brutalement marqué, elle offre cependant la particularité d’être constituée d’une succession de séquences qui crée une sorte d’architecture impalpable aux proportions harmonieusement établies. c’est bien d’une oeuvre musicale au sens que l’on donne habituellement à ce terme en occident qu’il s’agit, et non d’un simple environnement sonore à caractère plus ou moins expérimental.

terraform 01

“A sense of location within one’s physical space, culture and history plays a crucial role in the creation of my work. While images and ideas often begin with the landscape, I am also drawn to the incorporation of non-art materials (e.g., foam, packing peanuts, bubble wrap and PVC tubes) and the juxtaposition of ambiguous imagery, deliberately subverting viewer’s visual expectations. My work invokes the paradoxical notion of “harmonious conflict” where compositional/conceptual relationship of materials and images are questioned and yet valued.”

Таттл, Ричард
理查德·塔特尔
리처드 터틀
ריצ’רד טאטל
リチャード・タトル
I Don’t Know
Richard Tuttle emploie magistralement différents matériaux pour élaborer un lexique personnel où le carton, le métal, le bois, le papier ou le textile deviennent comme les mots d’un poème ou les notes d’une partition. Ses sculptures se caractérisent également par l’absence de référence ou d’interprétation. “Faire une chose qui ne ressemble qu’à elle même, c’est là le problème, c’est là la solution. Faire quelque chose qui soit son propre dénouement, sa propre justification, cela ressemble au rêve. Il n’y a là aucun paradoxe, car ceci n’est qu’un adieu au réel. Nous n’avons pas d’esprit, nous n’avons que son rêve d’existence, un rêve de substance quand il y en a une”.

Paranoid Panopticum

The viewer activates the «Paranoid Panopticum» by entering its small corridor between two «walls». Recorded through the mirrored wall by a video camera, the viewer’s image is projected onto the opposite wall, where it becomes part of a story freely adapted by Alfred Kreijemborg in his play titled «An Echo Play» (1923), based on the Greek myth of Narcissus. Instead of returning the affections of the nymph Echo, the protagonist falls in love with his own reflection. Like with the image of Narcissus on the water, the viewer’s own reflection appears now – and the viewer observes only himself. The Panopticum, the terminus of a circulatory prison complex, is controlled from a watchtower not visible for the prison inmates. Having consciousness controlled here causes in effect the self-control among the prisoners. The paradox in this experience – control and society’s surrendering to its own mechanisms – forms the basis of Maat’s installation. Whether as the observer or observed, the viewer is consistently extradited to the panoptic omnipresence of his own all-pervading reflection.

Connect, Back to Back
Regine Schumann\’s works live in transparent zones between radiating light and darkness. She works between visible light and inner enlightenment, between sensual dematerialization of space and magical colors. Inspired by the invisible black light, the surfaces of her works send intensely radiating color realities that create a paradox, almost chromatic aura. The color and light produces this ambivalent states which also reflect sculptural qualities.

Schindler’s Paradox Box

The double helix ramps descend towards the new open auditorium and climb 15 meters until they reach an open roof garden that offers interesting views from below, from above and the border between them. Helical lines are connected on the north side of the house to reconnect on the roof and at the level of the underground auditorium. The interlocking ramps create a continuous common surface that flows between them, emphasizing views of the property, Kings Road and adjoining apartment buildings. The support surfaces of the ramps are independent of the Berlin walls that support them.

“Hannes Van Severen makes the connection between reality and imagination in his work. The artist starts with an existing, everyday object, usually a piece of furniture, which he then transforms and changes. In this way, he deprives the object of its original functionality and allows its aesthetic value to prevail. As a result, the original usefulness of the everyday object no longer predominates, but his work nevertheless continues to be a visual reference to the original. With this paradoxical construction, Hannes Van Severen creates a fictitious world of images with alternative, intrinsic meanings and potential. The observer has to let go of the explanatory and allow his or her imagination to take flight. In combination with the personal experience of the observer, a richer dimension of the reality experienced will emerge with the new reading and interpretation of things that are apparently obvious. With this transformation, Van Severen wants to break down our recognition, to question the obviousness of our reality, and to show us the absurdity that surrounds us. Like the cubists and the surrealists, the artist divides into pieces and rearranges  an existing reality, which means that he can be described as a saboteur of the obvious.” Stef Van Bellingen

Андреас Гурски
안드레아스 거스키
安德烈亚斯·古尔斯基
أندرياس غورسكي
アンドレアスことスキー
אנדריאס גורסקי
Paris, Montparnasse
Sein Paris, Montparnasse, zum Beispiel vier Meter lang und fast zwei Meter hoch, reproduziert auf den ersten Blick einen riesigen Wohnkomplex in Frankreich, der auf den ersten Blick als strenge Fassade aus kleinen Zellen wahrgenommen wird. In einem zweiten Moment wird bemerkt, dass das Foto von großen Ausmaßen die Verzierung des Lebens in der Gesellschaft in diesem Raum dokumentiert.”Sie haben das Gefühl, dass Sie jede dieser Wohnungen betreten können, selbst wenn Sie eine Lampe oder eine Person erkennen, die gerade den Vorhang schließt”, kommentiert Ralf Beil, Direktor der Mathildenhöhe, das Paradoxon in Gurskys Gewerkschaftsarbeit zwischen riesigem Panoramablick und absoluten Details.