Timebubble, 2011
Videosculpture
With Philip Glass
Choreographie: Saori Tsukada

Audio- Design: Asako Fujimoto
Costumes: Azumi Oe & Nozomi Yasuda
Two synchronized videos, 3min each, looped
Hand-blown glass
Video screen embedded in an acrylic box
36 x 36 x 25cm / 14 x 14 x 10 inches

Combining choreography, video and sculpture, New York based Swiss artist Katja Loher embeds elaborately staged and costumed video productions into small hand-blown bubble-like glassworks or, in case of Supper for Two, into an acrylic table. She also projects them onto suspended balloons, as in the title of her second solo exhibition at Anya Tish Gallery. What sets Loher apart from other artists who embed looped video into objects is the complexity of her choreography which has dancers multiplying and regrouping in kaleidoscopic configurations that thematically emphasize humans' interdependency with nature. As an added bonus, one of Loher's glass pieces, Timebubble guest stars composer Philip Glass.
> Douglas Britt: Supper for two and Multiverse. In: Houston Chronicle, Houston, December 5. 2011.

Loher takes her play with ephemeral objects and solid materials to a new level in her most recent development. In the Bubble-Series, she embeds video into the hollow body of hand blown glass sculptures.
Timebubble, Airbubble and Spacebubble feature three characters: the Master of Time (exceptionally interpreted by the American composer Philip Glass), the Master of Space, and the Master of Light, all committed in a quest to find solutions to preserve their worlds.
> Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Extract from Press release, Solo show, fall 2011.

Docu video Timebubble:

Backstage, Shooting Master of Time:

Photos: Adi Shniderman

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