Baumeister

The camera moves in a spiral motion along the ceiling, picking up its circular shape by tracing the joint between two ceiling elements; rectangular lamps emerge one after the other like the schematic representation of sunbeams or the spokes of a wheel; in parallel, the sound conveys an atmospheric, reverberating "dripping" - at least that is one of an infinite number of possible associations.The video Baumeister describes the deserted interior of the ORF studio in Dornbirn. Planned and executed by Gustav Peichl in 1969-1972, its formal basis is the spiral - that figure which results from a line unfolding from the inside to the outside, and which is also found on the human body: at the navel or in the ear....

In a similar way that architecture translates the function of hearing, Claudia Larcher's video refers to seeing. The camera is the eye that tries to grasp the structure of space by tracing, repeating its movements. But seeing (just like hearing or feeling) is not an objectifying act. It is closely linked to the memories of the one who perceives. In this respect it never produces a continuous space of experience. Rather, it produces images consisting of superimpositions, transformations, condensations. (Ines Gebetsroither)