'Time Fades' by Philipp Geist - Berlin Kulturforum Berlin

'Time Fades' video installation by Philipp Geist Berlin Kulturforum Berlin "Lange Nacht der Museen" 26.01.2008 Documentary by Patrick Heeren Music by Biosphere www.myspace.com ‚Time Fades' Installation by Philipp Geist During the 'Long Night of the Museums', which is a special event taking place twice a year when most of Berlin´s museums are open till 2 am, the Berlin-based artist Philipp Geist showed his video installation 'time fades' at the Kulturforum. In his installation Geist interprets the themes of space and time. He avoids using canvasses and projects directly on parts of the façade of the architecture and on transparent grounds like sheets of gauze and fog. The result is an interplay between the concrete, tangible wall and the transparent, dissolving ground of projection. This concept refers to the characteristics of history as experienced in a museum: history and the notion of it mainly develop subjectively in the mind of the onlooker. The representations of history are being animated in the moment of the visitor´s reflections. The dissolving projection ground symbolizes not only the fragmentary knowledge and understanding of the life in the past, which is to be completed, but also the memory which must be saved from disappearing and dissolving. Thus, Geist develops a dialogue with the location, his artistic work and the people who are entering and leaving the building. The visitor himself becomes part of the projected image at the threshold between the outside ...



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