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Walls - Video Installation

Joanna Hoffmann

The installation was realised thanks to the Fellowship for foreign artists awarded by the Konrad Wolf Film and Television Academy (Hochschule fur Film und Fernsehen) in Potsdam–Babelsberg. The project was supervised by Prof. Zaki Omar (Scenography with New Media), the Department of Scenography.

The loss of the center, horizon, natural, normal or even the human characterizes our daily life in the urbanized environment. Speed and nomadism, flexibility and reconfigurability are part of this experience. Despite its futuristic alterations, the city preserves its historical unity by diverse stories written in its walls, by the skyline drawn in our common memory.
The city is both organization of space and embodiment of time.
The installation “Walls” merges video material gathered in Berlin, Poznan and Calcutta. This combination suggests also other possibilities.(...)
The movement is an important factor in the analysis of human relation to the city walls. Sometimes it is a ghostly journey through a building; sometimes they are walls that flow passing the observer. In another case the liquid architecture forms a human head floating in some abstract abyss.
In our constantly expanding and more and more transparent world, walls still protect, limit, unite and define both our surrounding and its experience.

Joanna Hoffmann,Polish artist, working mainly with video and multimedia installations, exhibited her work in 25 solo and numerous group exhibitions and festivals all over the world, eg. at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow, WRO Festival for New Media in Wroclaw; “Cybersonica” Dana Centre Science Museum in London, “Video Brasil”, Sao Paolo.
Awarded among others by Fellowship of Polish Minister of Culture (2004, 2008) and the 1st prize in ”2007- a very spatial year" competition organized by the European Planetology Network "Europlanet" and the Space Research Centre Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw.
Assistant Professor (dr hab.) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan.
http://free.art.pl/hoffmann

Tilmann Dehnhard, Berlin-based musician and composer, studied at Hochschule der Künste Berlin (flute and saxophone) and at the Hochschule fur der Film und Fersehen in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
Theatre music for Armin Petras and film music for Bjoern Melhus.
Played and recorded with Sam Rivers, Evan Parker, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Terumasa Hino, Til Brönner, Cindy Lauper, Robbie Williams and others.
dehnhard.com

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