Simulation of a three channel installation for flat screens (11 min.)
In the background an overcast skyline on the shore. The panorama turns out to be a stripe of identical image sections mirrored to each other. Oil tankers entering the scene don't get mirrored at the axes of reflexion, but float on forward not influenced at all by their unreal surrounding. The ships also appear on opposite course as mirrored images of themselfs. Undisturbed by the known laws of physics they continue traveling to nameless regions ahead.
The tankers remain as verisimilar objects for the spectator, while the view as a whole is transformed. This actually gets possible by a much more fundamental intervention in the footage: a spatio-temporal restructuring related to the slit scan technique, which additionally introduces a precise analysis of the initial movement in the footage, and which aims at keeping up the overall spatial continuity of the scenario. The reorganisation of space and time results in another continous representation of auditive and visual objects captured from our real environment although it establishes a completely abnormal artifcial reality.
Crude Carrier was created for the exhibition „Team Play“ that took place in Cologne at Alte Feuerwache on 7 November 2008. The work was there projected on three screens aligned on a U-shape, each having dimensions of aproximately 13 x 9.75 ft. Nevertheless, the arrangement of three images is basically flexible. So the video instalation can be shown as a panorama or on three flat screens hung next to each other onto a wall. In addition to the installation a single channel film version of Crude Carrier has recently been published.
For more Information please visit the links below.
crudecarrier.videokunst.org
www.pascalfendrich.net
www.haerpfer.net