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| Dream.body/-memory |
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Performance and video installation
Saarbrücken, Luxemburg, Vienna 1999
original length 35 minutes |
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| Performance: |
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Walli Höfinger |
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| Tech. Support: |
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Harald Söther |
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| Camera: |
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Ulrich Behr, Michaela Köck, Martin Luckert |
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| Photos: |
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Karl-Heinz Friedrich, Martin Luckert |
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| In the work |
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“Dream.body/-memory” I seek a dialogue
between the present moment and the latent potential of dreams and memory,
represented by the performer and her electronic double – a video-body
object made of 5 monitors.
The field of this performance is created by the parallel presence of one
virtual and one real body.
This performance is about the fascination of
the electronic double, a mirror which creates an inner life of its own
- a new reality which functions as a metaphor for the fact that all you
have ever felt, thought, seen and experienced is ultimately recorded/stored
in your body-soul. |
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| The video |
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In this sense I understand video as “the
body of a monitor filled with non-substantial life”. The medium
offers me the possibility of creating an optical time which can be associated
with the quality and reality of dreams and memories.
Each of the two performing bodies, the real and the virtual one, has
different ways of expressing itself.
The live body expresses itself by being in space in the spontaneous flow
of movement, and the video-object expresses itself through prerecorded
material that is staggered in time and by speaking through images and
sounds. These are connected to reality, yet have an independent life
of their own.
I understand “Dream.body/-memory” as an exploration and
an experiment playing with the different qualities of life-presence. |
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