Esther Hunziker: “DUMP”
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Esther Hunziker: DUMP
DUMP
Online project, interactive installation with double projection, 2010
Constantly changing, various subjects come up on two screens projected into a corner: single letters of the alphabet, words, sentences and text fields, white an black, once again with, one again without reduced images of roads, crowds, billboards, portraits, even abstract graphics. Every now and then single words and sentences are spoken. The combination of texts and images, sound and film seems endless, the movements seem restless. By mouse click one can choose between 24 scenes, and interactively discover ever new combinations within one scene. The online project DUMP, all in all, comprises 455 images, 323 HTML pages, 288 words spoken and texts read, 52 style sheets and Java scripts as well as 36 sound files and 9 films.
For the installation the online project is doubled and projected onto the wall. This results in an overstimulation that can be bodily experienced, visually and acoustically one feels fraught with images and texts, their information, possible meaning, interlacing. One has hardly started to ponder sentences like “Cleared emptied consumption showoff languages listening dithering become, long Agents ...” when one’s attention is drawn to a film showing a car driving through a city at night, the accompanying commentary supporting the feeling of being immersed. Esther Hunziker calls her work DUMP a “Hyperfiction-Trash-Collage”, denoting waste or something dispensable, something unnecessary. The artist attends to the unpopular waste our time- and limitless online communication produces. Abstract spam texts without any meaning trying to outfox our spam filters are taken from their context and interwoven to form a subjective, non-narrative collage, with the texts, images, and sounds, by individual interaction, creating ever new fields of tension. DUMP is a transformation of communi- cation waste material into visual-graphic poetry, a poetical recycling seducing by promising meaning but never disclosing its secret.
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