View of the Installation

Video back projection onto a wooden frame covered with paper
Projection: 2.15 m x 2.80 m
7:17 min (continuous loop)
sound

The video work »Steadicam« combines photographs of a traditional Japanese Nô stage with audio clips from the film Lost Highway by David Lynch. The animated photographs form the scenery for a dialogue between Renée and Fred Madison – the film's main characters – who are talking about two videotapes in which they can be seen in their own homes – sleeping, among other things – recorded by a stranger without their knowledge. The protagonists thus involuntarily present their private lives on the stage of the Nô theatre – without, however, appearing physically in the film.
In this video work by the artist duo Wiebke Grösch/Frank Metzger, theatre and film fuse to create a new audio-visual experience, in which the viewer as a voyeur takes on the same position as the author of the videotapes the characters are discussing. A complex fictional reality emerges: a reality that is imagined but not visible, and yet exists as a play both on the stage as well as in the viewer's own imagination.
(excerpted from the catalogue of Videonale 10, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2005)

© Wiebke Grösch/Frank Metzger