The Dead

2002 and ongoing, variable length, endless loop, anamorphic video, sound, chrome cylinder, TV table, dimensions variable

Edition 3 + 1 AP

The Dead is an ongoing series, since 2002, of cylindrical, anamorphic video relics. They honor people I once recorded and who have since passed away - my grandmother Ida Groebli, singer Lou Reed, actor Taylor Mead, electronic music pioneer Max Mathews, actor Telly Savalas ... 

A geometrically distorted video plays on a horizontal flat screen. In the center is a mirrored cylinder that reflects the video images, thereby un-distorting them. The cylindrical mirror becomes a key in deciphering the encrypted form of the two-dimensional video. It also allows viewers to walk around the image, creating the illusion that the deformed figures are literally rising from their electromagnetic grave - a digital reanimation, reminiscent of literary works such as Morel's Invention by Bioy Casares or Raymond Roussel's Locus Solus, where the dead rise again and again and reenact a central event from their lives. In The Dead, this would be the fleeting moment of the encounter with the artist, often short and coincidental.