Timo Kahlen

Drama

2011

Werk - Drama
Artist / Artist group
Timo Kahlen
Title
Drama
Year
2011
Edition / Serial number
8
Category
installation, computer-based
Material / Technique
website
Collection
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Description

A virtual reanimation of an insect - lying on its back. A miniature »Drama« (2011), an emotional visual metaphor: the individual‘s struggle at the borderline of life and death, with various and chance-generated endings, triggered by the viewers, as they play the interactive film loop again and again. The silent interactive film, approximately twelve seconds long, is closely related to Timo Kahlen’s kinetic sound sculptures »Tanz für zwei Fliegen« (Dance for Two Flies, 2005) and »Tanz für Insekten« (Dance for Insects, 2010): here, several insects - found dead (objets trouvés) - pulse, float and dance on the membranes of loudspeakers, resonating silently.

Author: Timo Kahlen

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