The film animations resemble musical sequences or rhythms. I compose, build, and draw with overlays of material, light, and sounds. Digital and analog experimentation are equally important to me. Immersion in the temporal dimension, not narration. The work does not …
Everything I have done and which films are in my archive is stored in me – sometimes I go through sketchbooks and suddenly find an older approach exciting again and try to relate it to current approaches. If then, to …
I experience my artworks more like communicating vessels. There is a lively exchange between the installations, the sketches and performances, my drawings, whether large or small, the animated films or even the writing of a text, animating each other. Each …
Both, the drawing and the film documentary complement each other in the installation, while I regard the performance basically as the actual work of art. In my performances I deal with the living, with the vulnerable, and finally with the …
In my experience scientists indeed can be interested in an exchange with artists. Both fields are very different and can inspire each other. Scientist are working within a framework of rules and have to proof the hypothesis they make up …
Animation for me is another time capsula, in reference to video or film as time based media. Similar to my drawings on paper, the line develops step by step into space, trying to gain reality. Reality, in this case, is …
Yes I would say my artistic concept of “going local” is rooted in my biography. You have to imagine that I grew up in an atmosphere of nature as a great spectacle in the middle of the Dolomite Alps, being …
Matthias Reinhold (with his interactive presentation he reminds of the “Mnemosyne-Atlas” by Aby Warburg):Let´s take the chicken again. Clicking on one of the feathers you could call up a landscape painting. Clicking on another one you would get a “feather …
My work is based on an intense observation of space and flatness. To accent this, I construct the scene in a way that it looks like a “strange” place. It’s a practice, that overdraws and modifies the real space, but …
Presenting my drawings in a book gives me the possibility to reach more people with my work, it got a democratic aspect. Anybody who likes that stuff can easily buy such a book. One can take the whole project home …