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: Continue reading "Andreas Wutz sees Toronto" »
