Barbara Gamper
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In my recent and current work I am exploring issues of displacement and ‘placelessness’ that relate to the physical as well as virtual migration of humans. I create fictional portraits of futuristic, post-apocalyptic situations and place them in landscapes that allow no defined cultural or historical identifications so that a sense of nowhere and yet everywhere can arise. The bodies I use for these situations become a metaphor for the contemporary virtual nomad and open up a question about the relationship between humankind and nature - body and place. I mainly work with the moving image using lens-based media as well as live performance. I am interested in staging the body alongside video work, where this body reappears, and in creating an almost theatrical setting, but outside of the time and space frame of the theatre.
Resident Alien / Situation Nr1 (Film still)
[HD video in single screen projection (20min on loop), durational live performance alongside the video], 2011.
[Sketch on the basis of '29-02-2040' to visualize the installation: video projection with durational live performance], 2010