VIDEO OPTICA | 2006

Video-Planet
Duration: 6:38, Loop
Audio Design: Asako Fujimoto

In "Video optica", the extraordinary beauty of Katja Loher's motion choreographies becomes effective in a particular way. The ball shows, at a rapid pace, glowing green blades of grass. Garden of Eden opens up with seducing red fruit. Already, the fruit is falling into the next parallel universe, into the grey house canyons of New York. They transform into the red hats of a crowd of people moving in formation, filmed from above. The colorful dance evokes the childlike amazement of a look into a sparkling kaleidoscope. The people group themselves together to form letters, words and questions. With a poetic lightness, the dance reproduces the lyrical game with the words, and the questions from Pablo Neruda's "Librado de la Preguntas" fall - like the red fruit - in a blithe manner to the grey ground. The questions of life have grown out from the grassy green.
March 2007, Monika Hardmeier

"What did the tree learn from the earth
to be able to talk with the sky?"

"Why don't they train helicopters
to suck honey from the sunlight?"

"What is the distance in round meters
between the sun and oranges ?"

The book of questions, Pablo Neruda

Alexander Clavel Stiftung Art Award
Villa Wenkenhof, Riehen.
Photos: Katja Loher