You will recognize the place

You will recognize the place

2004, Multi-screened video

Multi-screened projection (rear projection), looped 11:14 min., color, stereo sound, format: 4:3, 2 HD projectors, synchronous control unit, 2 active speakers, 2 BrightSign
Copies: 3 + 1 AP

Kunstraum Düsseldorf 2004

‹You will recognize the place› as double-channel projection at ‹Shift festival› Schaulager Basel 2007

«In ‹You will recognize the place› formen Dra­maturgie, Hand­lung, Kamera­führung, Schnitt und Setting die Narration. Episoden, Geschich­ten umkreisen die Themen Partner­schaft, Kommuni­kation, Kommu­nikationslosigkeit. Zwei Frauen, offenbar Zwil­linge, begegnen ei­nander in ei­nem Hotelzim­mer, das in zwei mit­einander verbun­dene Raum­fragmente unter­teilt ist. Die Pro­tagonis­tinnen blei­ben stumm, ein unaus­gespro­chener Konflikt wird in mini­malen Gesten ausge­tragen. […] Vor die­sem Hinter­grund werden die Requi­siten zu Akteu­ren, sind kleinste Ver­änderungen bedeut­sam und entste­hen Bilder von ein­dring­licher Intensi­tät.» Michael Voets, Kurator (Einzel­aus­stellung Kunst­raum Düssel­dorf 2004, Auszug aus dem Kata­logtext)

Actors: Anne Slobodda & Julia Slobodda; camera & sound: Michael Koch; Location: Hotel Villa Viktoria, Dusseldorf, Germany

Credits: Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt; Kulturelles Basel-Landschaft; Pro Helvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung; Ministerium für Städtebau und Wohnen, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen; Kulturamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf

“In Bettina Grossen­bacher’s installation ‘You will recog­nize the place’ the narration is formed by the drama­turgy, linearity of action, camera work, and cut. Small episodes, stories, also trage­dies focus the topics of partner­ship, communi­cation, even the lack of communi­cation. Two young women, probably twins, meet in a hotel room which is divided into two parts that are connected to each other. The two protago­nists remain silent, an un­uttered conflict is estab­lished by a minimum of gestures and motion. […] The props become part of the theatrical action; even slightest changes are meanin­gful, deve­loping pictures of urgent psycho­logical intensity.” Michael Voets, Curator (solo exhibition at Kunstraum Düsseldorf 2004, extract from cata­logue)