BLUR - ™3.6]HypeReal_PHOTOGRAPHY

A THEATRICAL MUSIC-SCULPTURE by Sergej Maingardt, Jens Standke and Rosi Ulrich

in June 2019 as theatrical VR-Installation at Kunsthof Galm, Brandenburg
requests under info [at] wehr51.com

™3.6]HypeReal_PHOTOGRAPHY deals with the fuzziness in the media image. It questions the reality of video images and photographs in art and documentation. In which ways do the images influence reality? "The extent to which truth is influenced and changed today by the media can only be guessed from the global political situation. What is certain, however, is that the blurriness of a printed text, an image or news information can contribute to the awareness that there can be no image of a "reality" today. We can no longer return to the moment of the sharp image and the sharp information, artistically as well as in documentary terms. So more than ever, it is a matter of making people aware of the fuzziness when they want to deal with truth and reality." (Norina Quinte)

™1.6]DELTAx_PHYSICS
™2.6]Paralyzed_PSYCHOLOGY
™4.6]AND:OR:NOT_FUZZY LOGIC
™5.6]Smart Factory_ECONOMY
™6.6]Souvereign uncertainty_POLITICS

All 6 miniatures are also available as theatrical virtual reality installations (with VR glasses and headphones).

with: Fabian Ringel, Karin Kettling; Speaker: Oliver Schnelker
Saxophone Quartet: Fukio Ensemble

Artistic direction: concept/composition: Sergej Maingardt, video art: Jens Standke, concept/text: Rosi Ulrich, Director: Andrea Bleikamp
Costume: Claus Stump, costume production: Andrea Uebel; Production management: Hannah Greve; Technique: Jens Kuklik; PR & Public relations: neurohr & andrä

after an essay of: Norina Quinte

UA: PHOTOGRAPHY & FUZZY LOGIC: 1.3.2018, 20 h, 2.-4.3.2018, Orangerie Theater im Volksgarten, Cologne
13.7.2018, KunstSalon Theaterpreis-Festival, Köln / as theatrical VR-Installation on 16. June 2019, Kunsthof GALM, in the frame of the Festival JÄTEN IM PARADIES, Milower Land, Brandenburg

But it was only with the invention of photography, the 'objective' image of the world, that the image increasingly began to detach itself from the actual object or event.

It was with the photography that blurriness came into the world.

Initially it was not a question of deliberately depicting images inaccurately, but the idea of transferring one's own subjective perceptions into the image through blurring was becoming increasingly enthusiastic. Thus the fuzziness can be understood as an imprecise moment, as a gap between two stable states, as an image of what cannot be shown. The non-expressible opens up a much greater range of thought for the viewer than the obvious. It is therefore a matter of enthusiasm for abstraction.
This is the exciting moment in the vagueness.