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16 / 11 / 02 – 15 / 12 / 02
Exhibition / Films / Talks / Performance

Coming Attraction
X Characters in Search of an Author
(2002)
Constanze Ruhm (A)

Deutsch

Endnotes:

(1) Memory

The installation space of Coming Attraction is an environment scripted to negotiate the past and a future. This space draws on the earlier project A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight (2001) as well as on the forthcoming production X Characters in Search of an Author (2002/3).

A Memory … is already built on the subjects of character, script, and movie ride that are substantial to Coming Attraction and X Characters. It provides a shared focus point, their foundation and source code. As a ”prequel” of the solo movement and narration of one voice, it now expands to register a range of motions and enunciations – of female characters’ voices, of movements through spaces and scripts – as the coded sources developed in A Memory … are turned into operating principles used as guidelines for subsequent productions. A Memory … re-scripts a Hollywood film (Eyes of Laura Mars, Irvin Kershner, USA 1978) as a digital and spatial interpretation. The film itself represents a characteristic late-1970s trope. It consists of a sequence of digital architectures, virtual reconstructions based on sets from the original movie. The relation between the digital structures built on filmic spaces and the camera movement is oriented along a voice-over narration. Eyes of Laura Mars is re-engineered into a new script situated between a text and a space. It becomes a system to speak through, not about.

It scripts the desires embodied within the condensed format of a trailer through the analytical logic of a synopsis. The project is shaped by the force of emotions and passions contained in the anatomy of narrative structures. These structures are translated into a different story in order to articulate a contemporary moment whose syntax is constructed through the specific template of the agency of a film. The film’s fictitious construction is inserted into a different fiction format (a written narration, an off-screen voice-over, a script). A Memory… is not an investigation of the real, but an attempt to explore the imaginary embedded in mainstream modes of narrative production, as these represent antagonistic configurations and reflective reservoirs of reality.


SCRIPT
RIDE
MEMORY
CHARACTER

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