OH LOOK NOTHING - KLANGAUSTREIBUNG - WAITING TO BE TUNED - PERFEKTE QUINTE
OH LOOK NOTHING, 2022 (excerpt, SUPPORTER, 2022) – 4k video, 2 channel audio, 6 min
OH LOOK NOTHING acts as a metronome for the unfoldings in the audiovisual multi-channel installation SUPPORTER, a duo show by Filip Caranica and Julio Ernesto Herrera Flores, shown at NKR Düsseldorf in 2022. OH LOOK NOTHING unites the videos WAITING TO BE TUNED and KLANGAUSTREIBUNG [Sound Exorcism] as well as Herrera Flores’ installation VORTEX as an audiovisual entity.
KLANGAUSTREIBUNG, 2022 (excerpt, SUPPORTER, 2022) – 4k video, 2 channel audio, 6 min
WAITING TO BE TUNED, 2022 (excerpt, SUPPORTER, 2022) – 4k video, 2 channel audio, 6 min
In the audiovisual works WAITING TO BE TUNED and KLANGAUSTREIBUNG, a map of Germany leaves the realm of the symbolic, becoming a meaty rag. In its new flesh-like physical form, the landmass that is commonly depicted without its neighbouring countries, is akin to the skin of a drum that has become detached from its frame. As a meaty rag, the map is incapable of emitting or receiving vibrations. WAITING TO BE TUNED and KLANGAUSTREIBUNG critically reflect on nation-statehood and cultural identity in the context of increasingly global crises.
OH LOOK NOTHING, KLANGAUSTREIBUNG, WAITING TO BE TUNED and PERFEKTE QUINTE as part of the duo show SUPPORTER by Julio Ernesto Herrera Flores and Filip Caranica at NKR Düsseldorf, 2022 – video documentation
The exhibition SUPPORTER combines 3D-animated videos, sound, spatial paintings and objects in a landscape of audiovisual interactions. Based on a fundamental interest in the evocative energy of sound and the myth of the sublime in art, the works on display centre the themes of Rausch – the German word for states of frenzy – and the formation of national and cultural identity. A map of Germany that has become a meaty rag is probed and prodded by a branch. Carried by elegiac, bellowing hooligan chants, the map is moved by blasts of air from a rotating beer bottle, while in a vortex-shaped room a column of spray paint-dripping beer crates becomes a site of hymnic toxicity.
SUPPORTER – exhibition views, NKR Düsseldorf, 2022 (photos: the artists & Johannes Bendzulla)
KLANGAUSTREIBUNG, 2022 (SUPPORTER, 2022) – video stills
WAITING TO BE TUNED, 2022 (SUPPORTER, 2022) – video stills
PERFEKTE QUINTE, 2022 (SUPPORTER, 2022) – 2 channel audio, 27 sec
The piece PERFEKTE QUINTE [Perfect Fifth] is based on a counterpoint in the style of early baroque German sacred music, which is a substantial part of the foundation upon which the formation and preservation of German cultural identity is carried out. Clothed in a toxically aggressive garment of electronic sounds, the counterpoint in PERFEKTE QUINTE takes a satirical look at the potential of a connection between cultural archiving and political marginalisation.
