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das raum- licht- u. medienlabor von martina tritthart

RED-WOOD-ROAD

– a video- and lightinstallation by MUTUAL LOOP (Holger Lang and Martina Tritthart) from May to June 2022 in the the ‚Red Carpet Showroom‘ in public space at Karlsplatz Vienna featured by Künstlerhaus.

With the help of Bernhard Meißnitzer and the team of Künstlerhaus: Pete Gmachl, Vinzent Cibulka and Gerald Roßbacher.

Trains, buses, cars, bicycles and pedestrians meet over several levels at one of Vienna’s busiest transport hubs. In addition, trees, meadows, flower beds and bodies of water invite you to linger, rest and dream. The contrast between urban movement and the relaxing power of nature can hardly be greater than in this place. Video loops on spatially arranged screens and a slowly running light sequence pick up on these opposites and continue them reflected in the showroom. Vehicles move through the city in patterns that always appear to be the same, along lanes and lane markings. Bushes and trees, in turn, create counterpoints in the visual composition. A red line not only leads through the underpass, it also connects the street with a virtual undergrowth in which a stylized jungle also dissolves into shapes and structures. The question of a confrontation between the challenges of traffic in the urban environment and nature itself, as a synonym for a possible different way to each other, is discussed and negotiated aesthetically in this work. However, it is not about presenting a simplified position on either city or country, on traffic or forest, but about presenting what connects and complements each other.

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