SCULPTING-IN-AIR-BUBBLE
Videosculpture, 2012
Two synchronized videos, 6:47 min each, looped
Hand-blown glass bubble, video screen embedded in an acrylic pedestal
Choreography: Saori Tsukada
Audio Design: Asako Fujimoto
36 x 36 x 25cm / 14 x 14 x 10 inches

Sculpting-in-Air-Bubble is an extension of the Videoplanet Sculpting in Air, that Loher produced on the occasion of the inauguration of Zaha Hadid's spectacular MAXXI Museum, in 2010. This piece is one of many incarnations of her planets/universes in which choreographed bodies filmed from a bird's eye view come together to form the letters of a new language. In this instance, the post-production editing process orchestrated a dialogue between man and machine. A very basic game of questions and answers and uniformed actors are reminiscent of 1970s science-fiction movies. The artist's exaggerated imagery underscores the fact that there can be no understanding between the sparkling eye and the rotating hard-disk, no matter how many words are exchanged.

Video Sculpting-in-Air Bubble:

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