Screening (gebundenes Buch)
Dt/engl
Verlag:
ISBN/EAN: 9783936681413
Sprache: Deutsch
Umfang: 96 S., 50 Illustr.
Einband: gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am
31.12.2010
Photographs of a huge building site, taken by night, show a bewildering world of machines,
cables and scaffolding, seemingly in total chaos. The viewer‘s gaze enters dim underworlds
that look like a modern equivalent of Piranesi’s Carceri.
Behind clearly structured, transparent façades we can see office workers, politicians and
hotel guests. We can see what they are doing and how they interact with one another.
Both everyday work and private life are on public display.
Like the propaganda images of totalitarian systems, the vastness of advertising spaces
turns our usual sense of proportions on its head. Monumentally large, usually female
human figures dwarf houses and people. They look down on the city‘s inhabitants from
above.
Taken together, the photographs in this book represent a visual commentary on our
presentday urban lifestyle. All the pictures were taken in Berlin – but the same scenes can
be seen all over the world. The buildings are just as interchangeable as the monumental
images of sex and consumerism.
Stefan Koppelkamm’s photographs are accompanied by selected monologues from Roland
Schimmelpfennig’s drama Push Up 1– 3, which give the inhabitants of this world a voice.
These are people who fully subscribe to the images of success and beauty taken from
adverts and from the media.
cables and scaffolding, seemingly in total chaos. The viewer‘s gaze enters dim underworlds
that look like a modern equivalent of Piranesi’s Carceri.
Behind clearly structured, transparent façades we can see office workers, politicians and
hotel guests. We can see what they are doing and how they interact with one another.
Both everyday work and private life are on public display.
Like the propaganda images of totalitarian systems, the vastness of advertising spaces
turns our usual sense of proportions on its head. Monumentally large, usually female
human figures dwarf houses and people. They look down on the city‘s inhabitants from
above.
Taken together, the photographs in this book represent a visual commentary on our
presentday urban lifestyle. All the pictures were taken in Berlin – but the same scenes can
be seen all over the world. The buildings are just as interchangeable as the monumental
images of sex and consumerism.
Stefan Koppelkamm’s photographs are accompanied by selected monologues from Roland
Schimmelpfennig’s drama Push Up 1– 3, which give the inhabitants of this world a voice.
These are people who fully subscribe to the images of success and beauty taken from
adverts and from the media.
Stefan Koppelkamms photographs are accompanied by selected monologues from Roland Schimmelpfennigs drama Push Up 13, which give the »ideal inhabitants« of this world a voice. These are people who fully subscribe to the images of success and beauty taken from adverts and from the media. Since the publication of his book Gewächshäuser und Wintergärten im 19. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart, 1981), Koppelkamm has repeatedly engaged with historic and actual aspects of architecture, cities and landscapes. Just as his last book, Ortszeit Local Time (Edition Axel Menges, 2005) could be seen as a search for a collective memory stored within architecture, Screening is a treatise on spaces and buildings that have no connection with their architectonic or social context. After studying film at the Otto-Falckenberg- Schule in Munich, Roland Schimmelpfennig went to work at the Münchner Kammerspiele, followed by the Schaubühne in Berlin, the Burgtheater in Vienna and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
