why do we enter rooms?

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Why Do We Enter Rooms: art installation: Esther Stocker, high definition video (1920 x 1080), video still, camera: Christian Dietl (LAS GAFAS FILMS), 2018

When Esther invited me to develop a choreography for her installation, an article came to my mind which was written by the cultural studies theorist Irit Rogoff:(1) in this she describes a practice she had developed in the context of an exhibition opening by the artist Jackson Pollock, whose opera is ascribed to Modernism: the conception of Pollock’s paintings envisaged that the viewers should contemplatively immerse themselves in them.

Art installation: Esther Stocker
Choreography and performer: Iris Julian
Camera: Christian Dietl (LAS GAFAS FILMS)
Location: OK Centre for Contemporary Art Linz, Upper Austrian Culture Quarter
Color grading: Daniel Hollerweger

Video link: https://vimeo.com/275890920