DO NOT CROSS

Karlheinz Pichler
© Two-part video installationDimensions variableTwo projections, media player, two videos (each 5 min., looped) ; Karlheinz Pichler
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Description
The two-part video installation 'DO NOT CROSS' shows rides alongside border fences in the United States, Belfast and Jerusalem. The rides are presented as stop motion videos composed of single-panorama shots. The images are taken from a common online service that shows street views worldwide. Each picture was divided vertically, as we would be willing to divide the world into good and evil; the wall on one half threateningly extends towards the rest of its composition. This second half shows houses, wasteland, normality – yet, in the face of (and facing across from) a border, normality is most obviously delusive. Our awareness of this form of normality changes our perspective towards it.
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Material
Two projections, media player, two videos (each 5 min., looped)
Exhibitions & Events
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