
Focusing on the media history of urban and natural landscapes, Munich audio-visual artist Andreas Wutz’s concepts relate to historical and contemporary time. He is in residence at Toronto's Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (
LIFT) with the support of PIX Film and the Goethe-Institut for the month of November, working on a new project called
80 seconds in Toronto, a mixed media installation that explores local districts at night-time to combine or contrast the images with specific sounds recorded in that neighbourhood, or with sounds that result from exposing found objects or site-specific patterns and structures onto an optical sound track. The project title refers to the photo-based film
1 second in Montreal by Michael Snow. At the same it alludes to the fact that the cyclic rhythm of a carousel slide projector is defined by 80 slides.
Here are some first visual impressions of Wutz' work-in-progress and his artist statement, chasing prehistoric glaciers and inaudible rivers:
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