Date: 5.18.98
From: hoberman@bway.net
Subject: Unexpected Obstacles opening at ZKM Media Museum
UNEXPECTED OBSTACLES: WORK BY PERRY HOBERMAN 1982-98 OPENS
AT ZKM MEDIA MUSEUM 29 MAY 1998
The visitors to this retrospective are heading for unfamiliar
experiences with superficially familiar objects. Film sequences,
advertising slogans, kitchen appliances, and last but not least
familiar computer monitors are displaced from their usual context
and are arranged in surprisingly novel ways that are highly imaginative.
Perry Hoberman uses these objects as a starting point for developing
totally new aesthetic systems of interrelations.
In "Dead Space/Living Rooms," for example, film stills
and fragments of sound tracks from long forgotten movies spring
to life again as huge 3D projections. In the interactive installation
"Faraday's Garden" the whole arsenal of electrical household
equipment comprising mixers, shavers and fans turns into a kind
of mechanical ballet. Starting up this kinetic sculpture follows
a hidden pattern and takes the viewers in an almost ghostlike
choreography through the room.
Perry Hoberman is an absolute expert in handling the full potential
of the new media in order to create representative new spaces
for observation. In his works the haptic character of objects
is placed in juxtaposition with the volatility of images. He contrasts
the cold presentation of a virtual reality with imaginative dreams.
In this way he expresses his comment on the euphoria of many progressive
utopias in both a nostalgic and satiric way.
http://www.zkm.de/hoberman/
Référence: http://www.rhizome.org/cgi-local/query.cgi?action=grab_object&kt=kt1136