A Space Traversed with Signals
A Space Traversed with Signals | Installation View
A Space Traversed with Signals | Installation View, Opposite corridor
A Space Traversed with Signals | Installation View, Opposite corridor
A Space Traversed with Signals | Detail of Video Projection
All Photos by Peter D. Hartung
2004
Double Channel Video and Sound Installation
T shaped structure-2.15m X 1.5m X1.4m [entrance] 6m X 1.5m X 2.15m [video corridor] 1.5m X 1.3m [projections]
A Space Traversed with Signals examines the space between individuals in the act of conversation. The work questions not the spoken words, but rather the gaps and micro-gestures within the dialogue situation, which can be understood as occupying the space of partial unpredictability – or rather a quasi noise state. Within this installation the viewer is positioned in the midst of the corridor of communication between speakers, inhabiting the fluctuating noise space between the two individuals.
Plurinaming / Polyphony
The practice of multiple naming began in 2001 as a by-product of physical displacement, and as an adaptive game in negotiating foreign cultural/linguistic contexts. The name is acquired after a period of acquaintanceship with a “local”, and as a gift, cannot be refused or negotiated. Names are not an alias, but rather a compounding of the original name, as such they are notated as follows:
Pia Fuchs deutsche Identität von Patricia Reed.