Shadow Grounds (2001)

A video installation presented at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin in august/september 2001, a 10x4 m video projection filling the entire wall in a white room. Like all his later installations, it is running off a computer, creating an everchanging stream of video and audio in the meeting between programmed structure and the media.

« It may well be imperfect, » I say, « but it leaves traces. And we can follow these traces, like footsteps in the snow . »
« Where do they lead ? »
« To oneself », I answer. « That´s what the mind is. Without the mind, nothing leads anywhere. »
Haruki Murakami, Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World

This installation is closely thematically linked with my other installations node, lapser and split.

As part of my residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, I made a catalog, designed by Lasse Marhaug (see releases section) and with texts by Jeremy Welsh and Andreas Broeckmann.
As part of the BE Magazin, Gerrit Gohlke wrote a text about Shadowgrounds.
All these texts are available in the text section.

• relevant links:


• preface to catalogue by Jeremy Welsh
• interview with Andreas Broeckmann from the catalogue
• text by Gerrit Gohlke published in the BE Magazine
• the shadowgrounds catalogue
• Künstlerhaus Bethanien