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Holger Mader, Alexander Stublic und Heike Wiermann
Holger Mader – 1970 born in Basel, lives in Berlin
Alexander Stublic – 1967 born in Saarbrücken, lives in Karlsruhe
Heike Wiermann – 1971 born in Leipzig, lives in Berlin
Thomas A. Troge (Sound) – 1950 born, lives in Karlsruhe
Cube, 2001
Four-sided video installation, 16 min |
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Can media images create spaces, describe plastic forms, fashion architecture, and make it amenable to experience? These questions are addressed by media artists Holger Mader and Alexander Stublic together with architect Heike Wiermann in their installation »Cube«, which they developed in 2001. This over-dimensional work consists of a cube placed in open space, whose four visible planes act as interfaces for video sequences combined with sound. The video projections show a rapid succession of predominantly abstract black and white structures, which are so attuned to one another that they create the impression of a body of light in motion. The electronic images develop a dynamism of their own in the third dimension: by deconstructing the cube, they define its stereometric form. Unlike customary screen images, which merely intimate depth, here space and volumes are genuinely captured—which can only be so if media image and physical body are totally congruent.
An intrinsic part of the choreography is a sound composition specially developed by the musician Thomas A. Troge, which like the abstract imagery performs a deconstruction of the form. Here visual and auditory media mutually enhance and determine one another. With the participation of the viewer,
who can only take in the cube in its entirety through his or her own motion in space, the video sculpture can be experienced as a spatial occurrence. Digital image technology and sound composition give rise here to an abstract aesthetic that signal utterly new possibilities for perceiving space. |
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