Maria Thrän
Fragments of Distance – ON(e) Distance
LIVE Online Installation on Mozilla Hubs
2 video loops, camcorders, 6-channel speech modulations, field recordings, piano, Cinema 4D
Director/Edit: Maria Thrän
Gallery Jedna Dva Tri/ Goethe-Institut, Prag 2020
Exhibition text: Rime Abd Al Majeed
3D: Nicolas Gebbe, Aron Mimietz
Mozilla Hubs: Maria Thraen
In Conversation with 10 different friends and strangers
Conversational language:
Apartment Berlin: German / English
Apartment Prague: English / Czech
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Modulated audio and video recordings on the topic of distance were made in Prague and Berlin during the two lockdowns in 2020. This developed into a web-based online installation on Mozilla Hubs. Thrän's apartments in the respective cities are abstractly modeled, they are connected via 2 videos and a 6-channel sound installation. Access is unlimited online with an avatar. Comparable to a computer game through one's own movement, the different sound channels become audible in a differentiated manner. 25 people can go live online and exchange ideas with each other.
Fragments of Distance – ON(e) Distance
“Viewed under the magnifying glass, things appear strange to us, so enlarged there is a distance – not only to the things but to ourselves – because we do not recognize them and thus ourselves.” Our perception of time accelerates this process by slowing it down; the deceleration ordered by Covid-19 caused a shift in perception that sometimes comes close to an enlargement or mirroring of our circumstances. But what is alienation and what proportion of a relationship is being described here?”
Outside view
Thrän's artistic focus lies at the intersection of visual arts, music, and experimental research. Her works reflect on ecological and social dimensions and always incorporate the diverse relationships between space and body.
ON(e) Distance
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