5 Poems, print (139 x 82 cm) and 5:48 minute clip exhibited 30.09.2020 at Dox in Prague, CZ.
In this contemporary version of the medieval allegory of the Dance of Death, death achieves a new omnipresence, which exceeds the realm of the living. Things are declared dead, though they have never been alive. Somebody has a stronger emotional bond with something close-by than with something far away. A phone is in close distance to many, while a glacier is in long distance to the most. Both are usually not seen as alive, but have been declared dead in recent past*. The consequences are on a small scale related to personal loss and on bigger scale to environmental ruination.
Death has to get used to new conceptions of itself, has to learn new patterns, new looks, representations, and might here and there be confused. But for sure, death will keep on dancing.
*For example: The phrase my phone just died is widely used when it ran out of battery, fell of stopped functioning otherwise. And in summer 2019 Iceland held a funeral for their lost glacier Ok(jökull) [Ok(glacier)] which had been declared dead in 2014 by glaciologists.
Todesfilmlein 1-5
The Phone. The Couch. The Aircraft. The Mountain. The Glacier.
