fliegenfallen, 1999

The video projection

"fliegenfallen” (flytraps) comprises a video projection and a sound sculpture. In the video a fly tries to escape from a glass while you hear its buzzing and parts of the song "Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt" (The wind told me a song) by Zara Leander as well as wind sounds. Reality, memory but also irony and the allusion to the life-threatening situation of the creature are sub-plots of the main motif: to make air visible by means of an acoustic concentration – buzzing, singing and soughing.
(Text by Jürgen Weichard, in: ‘‘Saarbrücken - Kiel, Kiel – Saarbrücken“, catalogue, 1999)

The sound sculpture

As soon as a person steps between parts of the sculpture, a wind machine is started, and the person finds herself or himself in a situation where the air that is streaming in reality is simultaneously withdrawn at a virtual (acoustic) level. The sound sculpture was realized as part of the performance "Jagdzeit" (hunting season) by Gundi Ellert in the "Theater im Kino" (cinema theatre) in Berlin.