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CURRENTS New Media Festival 2014

13. – 29. Juni 2014 - Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

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MILIEU – All I have is my Distance – Video-, Raum- und Klanginstallation

Konzept, bewegtes Bild und Raum: Jörg Staeger – Musik: Markus Muench

MILIEU All I Have Is My Distance

Jorg Staeger & Marcus Muench
New Media Installation

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Video projections appear as a light sculpture in space. Five transparent, barely perceptible screens are covered by images. The screens catch the images and let them to pass through, combining with other images in other layers to create new views. Space between the screens invites visitors to walk through and influence the images with their bodies. There are no predefined images projected, though graphic shapes and textures are generated by programmed rules, controlled by the work of composer Markus Muench.

„My favorite was Joerg Staeger’s “Milieu,” consisting of five screens which you could traverse and stand in between. It was co-titled “All I have is my Distance,” a phrase from Gilles Deleuze. Chunking, polishing, tapping sounds ran coevally with images that patterned static or other electronic forms in ways that put me back to very early encounters with Steina Wasulka´s sea waves and air brakes. I could see my husband’s silhouette through one of the screens but, his figure over laced with the imagery and the sound, seemed so remote as to make him seem possibly unhuman. I thought this work was tremendous.“

ADOBE AIRSTREAM June 2014 by Ellen Berkovitch_Reflections on the Public Space of CURRENTS New Media Festival