Magdelene Kunz and Daniel Glasser (Switzerland)
Video Sculpture
16/04/2008 -19 /04/2008

On invitation by Pro Helvetia (the Swiss Arts Council) and
blank projects, the Swiss artists Daniel Glaser and Magdalena Kunz are
spending some months as Artists-in-Residence in Cape Town.
Voices,
the new project by Swiss artists Daniel Glaser and Magdalena Kunz , is a
verbal geography that gives a voice to people to talk about their hopes
and fears. At blank Glaser/Kunz will show a Talking Head, a video
sculpture. From here the work will travel to Zimbabwe.
“A
strength of the work by Daniel Glaser and Magdalena Kunz is related to
the way in which viewers get confused about their own body perception;
in fact, the movement of the images is invisible at first and then just
barely perceptible so that we end up doubting our own bodily presence.
In a way their images and sculptures are played out within this tension
between reality and representation and between presence and absence.
When
the viewer makes an effort to get synchronized with the work, it
acquires an almost performative quality, giving life to a strange form
of art in which the spectator becomes a discursive element in the
transformation of meaning.” (Illaria Bonacossa, Curator at Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo di Torino /contributor: Label Magazine, Turin
and Contemporary, London).

