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"Redefining the meaning of homeland in the global age. -
Heidi SPECKER, Berlin artist, leaves Berlin and spends 28 days in Australia as artist-in-residence at Sydney College of the Arts.
Every day she emails photographs to Austrian architect and writer Theo DEUTINGER, based in Rotterdam. He responds with small and confidential essays about a place he has not visited." (freely translated text, © Heidi SPECKER)
"The imagination lies at the opposite end of the spectrum from the view.
While the view suffers from chronic delay, caused by the inertia of light, multiplied by frictional losses in the human visual organ, imagination is a real-time phenomenon. With properly functioning eyesight, the view is guaranteed, whereas the imagination has to be forced." (© Theo Deutinger)
'Help Me I Am Blind!'―two people in search of the intervening space.
Heidi SPECKER's photographed views of Australia are answered by the daily imaginings of Theo Deutinger in Rotterdam.
An exchange of images and texts―in real time via the Internet―results in testimonies of distance and closeness―at a time when the meter and kilometer have obviously outlived their relevance as measures of distance. * * The publication is part of the series of artists' projects edited by Christoph KELLER." (publisher's note, © Ringier, 2010)
About the photographer, Heidi SPECKER (b. 1971 in Flachau, Germany):
Heidi SPECKER lives and works in Berlin.
Architect, urbanist and theoretician Theo Deutinger lives and works in Rotterdam.
Heidi SPECKER, Berlin artist, leaves Berlin and spends 28 days in Australia as artist-in-residence at Sydney College of the Arts.
Every day she emails photographs to Austrian architect and writer Theo DEUTINGER, based in Rotterdam. He responds with small and confidential essays about a place he has not visited." (freely translated text, © Heidi SPECKER)
"The imagination lies at the opposite end of the spectrum from the view.
While the view suffers from chronic delay, caused by the inertia of light, multiplied by frictional losses in the human visual organ, imagination is a real-time phenomenon. With properly functioning eyesight, the view is guaranteed, whereas the imagination has to be forced." (© Theo Deutinger)
'Help Me I Am Blind!'―two people in search of the intervening space.
Heidi SPECKER's photographed views of Australia are answered by the daily imaginings of Theo Deutinger in Rotterdam.
An exchange of images and texts―in real time via the Internet―results in testimonies of distance and closeness―at a time when the meter and kilometer have obviously outlived their relevance as measures of distance. * * The publication is part of the series of artists' projects edited by Christoph KELLER." (publisher's note, © Ringier, 2010)
About the photographer, Heidi SPECKER (b. 1971 in Flachau, Germany):
Heidi SPECKER lives and works in Berlin.
Architect, urbanist and theoretician Theo Deutinger lives and works in Rotterdam.
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Christoph Keller
- Format
- German Ed.! Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 13,5 x 19,5 x 2 cm., 224 S., 70 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! English ed. also to order, please ask for price and availability, thank you!