KasselerKunstVereinsHeim - Program June - Jörn Peters
Thursday, June 21, 2007, 8 p.m.
Jörn Peters (D)
"Die Bibliothek"
Installation
For his photographs and video
installations, Jörn Peters chooses places in which the objects seem
to have completely lost their original functional meaning, places such
as an attic which harbours broken table legs, for example, or an abandoned
construction site with window frames lying about.
He puts a significant amount of physical energy into these places, so that
his pose draws a completely new movement from him and allows him to hover
over them. The room serves to limit the space around his photographs,
space in which his body as well as the objects become constructive elements
of the picture. The camera takes the initiative in this construction.
In his video sound installation "Ich mein was wir uns vorstellen"
(2006), it is a complete set of appliances such as a monitor, an amplifier,
a DVD player and loudspeakers that occupies the room as the performing
body on the one hand, but on the other hand becomes part of the architecture
it is actually bound to with straps. This conflict is enhanced to become
a dialectic cramp when, every hour, a text is suddenly and unexpectedly
shouted out.
*1980 in Essen. Studying art: Kunsthochschule Kassel.
Lives and works: Kassel.
