Skyliner

2007/2006 | video installation in two versions (outdoor, 2006 / indoor, 2007)



Skyliner exists in two versions, one for the outdoor space, the other for the indoor space, in each of which the viewing perspective is rotated by 180°.

In the outdoor installation, one views the video from the outside looking into the enclosure; in the exhibition space, the viewers find themselves inside a structure and look out of the opening at a video projection that fills the room.

«The Skyliner is an alien appendage on the rocky outcrop. It seems to be ‹docked› to the massive rock, at the foot of the castle, much like a spacecraft. Inside the box, the viewer looks through the pupil-like opening onto a television set, which is slightly turned away from him and suggests the inhabitant watching. The running video is about the long journey of a snail on the globe. Crawling and scanning the various countries with its feelers, it moves steadily, modeling the
traversed globe on its snail shell, in which it finally retreats exhausted into its own world, having reached the North Pole." (Bernd Ruzicska)

«Finally, the viewer has to crawl through an increasingly dense enclosure of wooden flotsam, in order to observe from there - the situation is somewhat reminiscent of a trench - after a video zoom through space, a snail that slowly leaves its slimy trail on a globe to the music of Depeche Mode's ‹In your Room› - gradually absorbing the spherical object. [...] Camouflage and appropriation, territorialization, colonization and globalization are just some of the associations that are playfully visualized here - and ultimately lead to the media overload of the animal performer.» (Eva Scharrer)


Exhibitions
2007 Lost Call, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel (indoor)
2006 Kunst am Schlossberg Lenzburg, Lenzburg (outdoor)
2006 Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz