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Der andere BeobachterArtist: Ruth SchnellComment:

Dead Presidents, deceased dictators, passed poets and reigning sovereigns – they watch us daily, as we swap goods for labor-power, as we sell commodities and buy resources, as we hawk dues and invest in securities, as we barter mining rights for

Light installation The unintentional glances of observers are one of the key factors in the artist's work with light sticks. For the exhibition Strom des Vergessens, terms related to the topic “remembering/forgetting” appeared briefly in the space

Immersive audio-visual animation 'facades' is an audio-visual animation, conceived for performance in a fulldome. Fulldomes are immersive, dome-based projection environments, which – as an interface – allow full and multimodal integration of the

Video installation in public space Anamorphically distorted video projection with different points of view. The work was installed in the public space in Feldkirch (AT).

Dynamic video installation [English title, Against Time] After the piece 'In between' (1999), 'Gegen die Zeit' is another installation for the secularized Johanneskirche in Feldkirch. The video projection depicts a female arm holding either a brush

Intervention At the bottom of the Silvretta reservoir dam unfolds a landscape that is touristically barely developed. Stones rupture the alpine turf. Some of these stones were gilded in the artist's studio, shown in exhibitions and later returned to

Videotape [English title, The dancing and the dead] If YOU, yes YOU, the one I'm addressing, have already photographed corpses and the pried-open skull, that is even now beautiful picturedance of the corpseshots (the camera is moved) a dancer

Three-part light installation Series 'Mirrors of the Unseen (MotU)' 'Floating Signs 2' features three light sticks, each consisting of a vertical bar of white flickering LEDs. For the viewer, the words and images seem to emerge from the bars,

On a November evening in 1980 the unsuspecting public walking past the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, and "The Broadway" department store located in the open air shopping center in Century City (LA), had a surprising