Acting from Zero
Performative action over 6 hours | ping-pong balls, two rabbits, Video stream with four cameras | 2009
Acting from Zero
Therein lies the hidden joy. […] His rock is his thing. […] The absurd man says yes, and his efforts never cease […] a blind man who wants to see and knows that the night has no end. […] The fight against summits can fill a human heart. We must imagine Sisyphus as a happy person. (Fragments from A. Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus”)
Society for Artistic Research Berlin | Experimental Design:
recording: there are three cameras permanently installed in the 7×7 room. the cameras do not serve the purpose of documentation, they serve to fragment the events. camera 1 records with a horizontal viewing angle of 47° from a position 4.10m horizontal x 1.80m vertical and up to a height of 0.40m of the opposite wall, measured relative to the corner at the entrance of the 7×7 room. camera 2 records with a horizontal viewing angle of 47° from a position -1.90m horizontal x 0.20m vertical and up to a height of 1.20m of the opposite wall, measured relative to the corner opposite the entrance of the room. camera 3 records at a vertical viewing angle of 47° from the 4.00m high ceiling of the room from a position 2.60m horizontal x -3.10m horizontal, relative to the corner of the entrance. a fourth camera records with a horizontal viewing angle of 47° in the 4×2×1 module of the super8 (this camera is not located in the 7×7 room). the recordings of the four cameras are simultaneously transmitted at www.gfkfb.net.