snippets from the world of André Werner
The fifth installment of my series of single-frame video installations What remains of cinema | ce qu’il reste du cinéma.
April 17. – 25. 2020, 06am – 03am CET
As I am, due to the current lockdown, unable to continue presenting these installations in galleries, cinemas or in the urban space, I made “La prisonnière du port” a live installation that streamed from my home. …continue reading
The first edition, La Femme et Le Fou, of my new series of interactive video installations entitled Was vom Kino übrig bleibt | What Remains Of Cinema was shown in Berlin as part of the … Continue reading “Was vom Kino übrig bleibt | What Remains Of Cinema”
Was vom Kino übrig bleibt | What Remains Of Cinema #4 | Girl with a Video Camera (II).
The interactive video installation will be shown at the C.A.R. art fair, 25. – 27. October. …continue reading
Girl with a Video Camera at the Mitte Media Festival 2019
The fourth installment of the series What Remains of Cinema, an interactive video installation. …continue reading
El Viaje de Venus | The Journey of the Venus
The third installment of the series What Remains of Cinema, an interactive video installation. Based on an image of a Ledischiff (freighter ship) on the Lake Zurich. …continue reading
Autopoiesis, like its prequel La Femme et Le Fou, is an interactive closed circuit installation. An old black-and-white TV set and an analog video camera are directly connected opposite to each other, creating a feedback loop in a closed circuit. The single frame of this edition, a selfie image of a nude girl standing in front of the mirror in a changing cubicle, is printed on an overhead sheet and placed, hanging on thin thread, between the camera and the monitor.
Thus, the image, which in itself reflects an autopoietic system, becomes part of the loop, jumping into the TV, immediately reborn in the camera, an autopoietic beauty. …continue reading
André Werner | The Yeosu Mandalas The Yeosu Mandalas are three silent video loops. necessity | community | territory. Based on a closed-circuit installation of a camera interacting with a black and white tv-set. A … Continue reading “Yeosu Mandalas | necessity community territory”
Circles. You may find yourself. The Collector of pictures had begun to live very much in seclusion; he had locked himself in and started living among his pictures. He simply needed his suitcases about, and … Continue reading “Circles | Installation for 13 monitors and a curious person.”
Infundere shows caustics (light reflexes) caused by falling drops in a bowl of water. Infundere was first shown as part of the exhibition Raumlektüre at the Zwingli Church. André Werner, “Infundere”, 2016, overhead-projector, water, infusion … Continue reading “Infundere | Zwingli Church”
Necessity silent loop, 2014, part 1 of 3 of the Yeosu Mandalas. Yeosu Mandala | Necessity by André Werner, created for and shown first at the 5th. Yeosu International Art Festival, September 2014 at the … Continue reading “Yeosu Mandala | Necessity”