What: ravages / Baustelle, panel, slides, videos > Gabriele Leidloff:Screening, 1997;Ugly Casting, 1997; Slices, 1993/96; Ultraschall, 1990;

Participants/guests:

Dr. Susanne Regener, Dr. Gunnar Schmidt, Gabriele Leidloff (concept and co-ordination); Hamburg, D.

When: August 10, 1997 at 1pm

Where: Hybrid WorkSpace, documenta X

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ravages / Baustelle

Discussion and screening for an analysis of the medial construction of the human being and the aetheticism of today's technologies.

Papers/discussion:

G. Leidloff (artist), S. Regener (ethnologist), G. Schmidt (scholar, musician), D.

The scientific use of electronic media was juxtaposed with an artistic application to create a dialogue about concepts, depictions, portrayals and ways of reception and the scientific and artistic use of images.

The screening with examples from various disciplines and technologies showed a historical connection and the sources and extraction of this kind of aestheticism.

The image is a prosthetic view, reality follows (upon) images. Life becomes a baustelle, a construction site. The typical veils the individual.

The human being models itself surgically in user-friendly individual parts - timeless, classic, suitable and exempted from original sin.

Screening/statement:

Art and science compared, scientific procedures as artistic principles. Leidloff uses everyday technology --film, video, radiographic imaging, photography -- to dissect situations in sequences and organizes them into an analytical film. The outcome is a seeming paradox between industrial product, informal painting and realistic photography, oppressive, tormenting fragments comprised of surface and density. She challenges technical, pictorial and psychological prerequisites of frontiers/taboos, of movement and time. (>Video: G. Leidloff, Screening, 1997;Ugly Casting, 1997; Slices, 1993/96; Ultraschall, 1990; slides)

Bodies of criminals, phantom images, computer images, death masks. The wish to locate the bad, to find physical signs of psychopathological deviancy. The disgression from the normal and/or the abnormal. Differing views of the human face. (S. Regener, Totenmasken, in: Ethnologia Europaea, 23 (1993) >slides).

The composite photography of Francis Galton (1822-1911) -- scientist and creator of images, eugenistic utopist, among the first aesthetic producers of virtuality -- shows the tension between phantasma, hard science, technology and fiction. Faces are masks of type. The projective mediality is also a creation of human beings. In contemporary culture, the human being is being re-created. Examples: Hans Bellmer, Krzrystof Pruzskowski, Thomas Ruff, Michael Jackson, Inez von Lamsweerde, the laboratory rat. (G. Schmidt, >slides).

Links to associated topics:

Hybrid WorkSpace, documenta X
l o g - i n / l o c k e d o u t
"'Give me a body'. Deleuze' Time Image and the Taxonomy of the Body in the Work of Gabriele Leidloff".
Moving Visual Object
POSTMODERNISM AND THE ART OF GABRIELE LEIDLOFF
Ugly Casting
Goethe (ARCHIPELAGO pdf)
Leidloff press