Urban Landscape
/ Panorama

experimental film, (interactive) photographs/ AR
2014/15

Architectural magazines or publications on architecture are used to create the series Urban Landscape. As in the series Baumeister, the various pages are cut up with a scalpel. In the process, blocks of text are removed and the printed elements of building parts and the like are left behind; the sequence of pages and the original book remain. The various layers now form a kind of relief. Opening to any random double page spread, we see a three-dimensional architectural landscape, a kind of model presented in space.

The panoramas by Claudia Larcher consist of collaged images from architectural magazines, which she brought together and then created a new form out of them with a uniform surface. Standing in a circular Panorama, the viewers perceives their environment through this kind of mask, which becomes a kind of analog version of Augmented Reality. In order to experience the work, the viewers enters the sculpture hanging from the ceiling. They are surrounded by the work and therefore become the centre (as in Virtual Reality) and do not perceive the work only from the outside. The artwork and its environment merge to create a new perspective.