Noise Above Our Heads

video animation, prints
2017

The video work Noise above our Heads stages (natural) rock formations and (artificial) architecture fragments morphed into one another, as if they emerged together, as a dystopian scenario. The architectural spaces mounted into the boulders recall Bruno Taut’s sketches of alpine architectural visions. The “noise around our heads” evokes the image of a threatened danger; the camera motion that seems directly downward, a vertical pan-shot, suggests a motion of falling that is disturbing to the beholder. The threat itself cannot be located, the falling never stops in a collision. The tension has no release, the threat has become permanent. Allegorically speaking, the work explores the question of the concealed and for the public inaccessible sites of data, bunker-like server-spaces that store billions upon billions of bytes of information.