soundssculpture, Spisel Perdisptie, Nibikistudio, Berlin 2014; Transkriptionen, Mila Kunstgalerie, Berlin 2013
Zen machine.
A pen draws the sound curve of a rake in the sand basin of the machine. Simultaneously, the rake erases the track caused by the sound of the rake, and the sound generated by this creates another track. The machine rotates endlessly around its own axis, thereby generating the endless erasure of an endless drawing that is regenerated by the sound of the erasure. A contact microphone transmits the sound of the rake to a loudspeaker whose vibration is in turn transmitted to the movement of the pen.
An Adaption of the 1986/87 published ‘Watchmen’ Comicbook (by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons). By the dissection of the storyboard leaving only “Dr. Manhatten”, a charakter who is endowed with a “nonlinear” perception of time.
” I was interested in time models and how ideas about them could be applied to books. I stumbled across Watchmen. And I was fascinated how Alan Moore had endowed his character Dr. Manhattan with a perception of time that is not embedded into a linear flow like everything else in the story. I wondered what would arise if a reader could share Dr. Manhattan’s perception of time and then read the story ‘all at present.’ What would happen then to Alan Moore’s construction of ‘story-time“? And to Alan Moore, if he were to witness this?”- Christoph Rothmeier 2011
Rothmeier’s artwork is an adaption of the graphic novel Watchmen (DC Comics, 1986/87) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Targeted dissection of all the storyboards throughout the book reduces the story to the appearance of one single character, Dr. Manhattan. In constructing this character, creator Alan Moore took his inspiration from nuclear and quantum physics. Moore believed that a character who lived in a quantum universe would not perceive time from a linear perspective. According to the original story, the superhero endowed with supernatural powers such as precognition, transmutation, telekinesis, and teleportation perceives time as being a permanently present state, or his own status as an “omnipresence” of his person in time. He becomes estranged from human habits, ending up as a stand-alone entity. In Any Time, Any Place, and Many Me, Dr. Manhattan remains the only figure left in the book, literally standing alone, visible at all stages of the story; the story’s sequential progression merges into simultaneity, and the linear aspect of time becomes three-dimensional.
Artist’s statement and Project description:, Abot – Artists´ books on tour – Catalog, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter könig, Köln, 20
ABoT (Artist Books on Tour – European artist’s book competition), MAK Museum for Applied Arts / Contemporary Arts, Vienna, 2011
ABoT – touring exhibithion, MGLC International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 2012
ABoT – touring exhibithion, UPM Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, 2012
Kommentar als selber was, WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 2009
track (recordings and time passages), a spacial “mise en scene” of acoustic phenomens recorded on a voyage over the eurasian continent, installation with audio, text and drawings, gallery artfinder, hamburg 2011
track 025 harmonica-ensemble and crossroad, Bejing, 5.10 min
18 timelines, audiorecordings were translated into machine drawings, ink on paper, under glas, on two tables, 2011
track 060 yaks, Bayangal, 7.17 min track 021 gamblinghall and street, Kyoto, 4.46 min track 000 underground trainYokohama Tokio, 18.10 min track 013 skating and football playing children, Sukhbataar Place 8 p.m, Barun Urt 7.49 min track 042 Peace bell and schoolkids, Hiroshima 4.10 min track 080 Janrasig temple, Ulan Bator 9.00 min track 037 Tsam Cymbal, Choijin lama temple museeum, Ulan Bator 4.10 min track 064 mongolian radio pop 4.13 min track 009 drums, monks, cars, police whistles, Kyoto 4.50 min track 052 Hiroshima mon Amour by Ultravox, 4.33 min track 082 walking on a wooden railway, Yakushima, 12.43.min track 014 door in train, Shinkansen nach Fukoake, 5.04 min track 005 wrestling and singing, reporter television, Barun Urt, 14.20 min track 010 Suikinkutsu, Kyoto 6.20 min track 062 train forest, Nowosibirsk, 9.42 min track 063 train forest, Nowosibirsk, 9.42 min track 000.1 6,5 Hz- wave, 6.00 min
track 033 Khamarin Khiid, 07:00 min
one of two loudspeakers is brought to swing by an electric mechanism in a periode of 5 minutes, after 2.30 min the speaker starts to turn in circles, the mechanism turns off and the speaker circles till it settles completely, two prints on paper describe a phenomen from different perspectives “the effect of a handclap by buddist monk on a person with a deranged perception of time”, 2011
track 042 “the tatoo around my right ankle is the soundwave of my mother’s voice saying my father’s name”
katalog published by Neue Kunst in Hamburg e.V. 2011
track 111 nightingale floors, Kyoto, 00:22
playllist of 25 audiorecordings and 25 tracks of silence, looped in a periode of 60 minutes, 1 loudspeaker is moved around a wall and back again, also takes 60 minutes, a bassshaker behind the wall emits vibrations, the ground resonates, directed by a motor a cable pull and electric devices, 2011
