linebirds

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linebirds
2001 / 2004

6'51
single channel
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Interaction takes place between viewer and image by means of a projective imagination.

The work linebirds by Susanne Schuricht shows a surface divided into equal rectangles. Each of the rectangles displays the same film. The film is played asynchronously, which means that each individual film sequence begins marginally earlier or later than the others. As the film continues the impressions start to merge, constituting a moving pattern configuration. A closure used for plastic bags, a piece of wire, covered with black and white plastics we perceive as shadows, a black and a white line in slow and fast movements, dividing space, communicating. They remind moving birds, curtains, paper – but never reveal their origin – and finally dissolve into blankness. linebirds is inspired by the Japanese expression “ma”. linebirds is the more abstract and tranquil answer to the former very lively and organic video work called finalklein. It is based on the same structure like finalklein.

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