projector installations
projection imponderabilia
42 films
2 films play chess
film for a naturally growing canvas
10 low-films
3 films
projection burn
11 films
11 films
6 films
24 films
projections on the blind artist
6 films
trash movie
film tube
film projection stand
2 films
saucer films tower
film for a moving projector and a moving canvas
film for a grid canvas
10 embedded films
fan film
voyeur’s reproduction
2 films
8 films
45 films
The dissolved definition of video
With the mass proliferation of video projectors, it is actually obvious to set up the projector sculpture in analogy to the video sculpture. But technically and conventionally, it doesn't really make sense: video projections so close together overlap and need an adequate screen, what should that look like?
Johannes Kreidler sets up projector sculptures, and he answers the question of meaning and projection surface conceptually: in the semantics of the sculpture itself, not in fulfilling the usual aesthetic concerns. The projected videos are simply barely recognisable, and that makes sense. Either they simply shine into the air, without any possible projection surface (the projector lights are extra weak, so that what is projected evaporates within a few metres), or they are directed at an object that is suitable for a screen to a very limited extent, especially since the >correct< distance is not maintained. What else is possible then: The viewer brings himself in, holds a hand in the cone of light or even has to use his whole body, as in "Projection Imponderabilia".
Kreidler, however, almost always gives a framing in the titles that reinforces the absurdity when he puts the weight of the work on the films that are broadcast. (As far as can be seen, they tend to be shots of nature, such as the microcosm of a meadow or a forest floor). He pretends to be a filmmaker, but we hardly see these films, we see their projection, their counterpart at which they are directed, sometimes we are the screen ourselves - and for the most part it is our imagination that then >makes< these films. Conceptual film is thus enriched by a sculptural variant, an >Expanded Cinema<, which shows cinema as an improbable, but by no means untrue space. As in Plato's cave, we see more the shadows.
related works:
Rhythms in Rooms
