FW: 12 hours : Kyoto-Raw material om sublime beauty by Wolf KAHLEN/Ethnol.

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Posted Nov. 18 2003 06:43

FW: 12 hours : Kyoto-Raw material om sublime beauty by Wolf KAHLEN/Ethnol.

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—–Original Message—–
From: Ruine der Kuenste Berlin [mailto:ruine-kuenste.berlin@snafu.de]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:55 AM
To: Ruine der Kunste Berlin
Subject: 12 hours : Kyoto-Raw material om sublime beauty by Wolf
KAHLEN/Ethnol.

Ethnologisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem (Museum of Ethnology Berlin Germany)
Lansstr. 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem, subway U1 stop Dahlem-Dorf
Saturday Nov. 29, 2003, 16 h
First presentation of the video loop installation
KYOTO-RAW MATERIAL ON SUBLIME BEAUTY
by WOLF KAHLEN
11 hours 25 minutes loop, 1999/2003
Running from Nov. 29, 2003 till Jan. 31, 2004 continously.
Since the piece is shorter than 12 hours, a da by day progressing delay
is
part of the message.

Too many beauties summed up, tend to become unbearable. (W.K.)
Abstract:
The uncut, raw material piece sums up -in the way of a chronological
video
diary- how the classical forms of beauty in Japanese daily life like
cute
wrappings of shopping items, temple rituals in right angle movements,
the
cult of rare shoes, the precise drawing of sand gardens, tea bowl
appreciations, an
exhibition of impermanent works, puppy like school girls as posters,
irritating older men passing by with the sound of hummed songs …
become
pretty hard to digest, while storing more and more of them in your mind.
If
they are not now and then 'broken' by - what Kahlen calls -'VIDEO DIRT':
the
technical breaking down or setting up of video images in real time or
slow
motion. After a first irritation, when the video dirt starts roling, it
develops into events, even stories of another kind of beauty, a
technical
one. Which, by the way, is at least in parts a Japanese product too.The
piece is beamed that way, that the viewer becomes just an accidental
passer-by and may stop or continue his way, thus possibly catching a bit
or
more of the subliminal message.

wolf.kahlen@tu-berlin.de
Tel/Fax 030 831 37 08
Press photos by email on request

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Subject: 12 hours : Kyoto-Raw
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11 hours 25 minutes loop, 1999/2003 
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Since the piece is shorter than 12 hours, a da by day progressing delay is<=
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Too many beauties summed up, tend to become unbearable. (W.K.) 
Abstract: 
The uncut, raw material piece sums up -in the way of a chronological video<=
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diary- how the classical forms of beauty in Japanese daily life like cute<b=
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wrappings of shopping items, temple rituals in right angle movements, the<b=
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cult of rare shoes, the precise drawing of sand gardens, tea bowl
appreciations, an 
exhibition of impermanent works, puppy like school girls as posters, 
irritating older men passing by with the sound of hummed songs … become<b=
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pretty hard to digest, while storing more and more of them in your mind. If=
 
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motion. After a first irritation, when the video dirt starts roling, it 
develops into events, even stories of another kind of beauty, a technical<b=
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one. Which, by the way, is at least in parts a Japanese product too.The 
piece is beamed that way, that the viewer becomes just an accidental 
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