ALEXANDER HAHN
electronic arts
SPACE VIDEO PRINT CV
Contact :: post at alexanderhahn.com
Cao Chang Di Road on Nov 2009 I Stood There Waiting

A handheld, mostly defocused video shot at Cao Chang Di Road, a Beijing art district street. Passing vehicles and people trigger the camera pans. Fluctuations in the original ambient soundtrack control the amount of grain. Blur and grain varyingly obscure the details - fuzziness of recollection and forgetting. At the time, it seemed like filming an ordinary place; the estate of artist Ai Weiwei to the right, eventually, two women waiting to be let in. In the wake following the artist's detention, the reconstructed wait is permeated by the tensional atmosphere present in covert or ubiquitous surveillance footage, foreshadowing imminent perpetration in even the seemingly most inconspicuous places.

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Nov 24, 2011 - Jan 26, 2012
ctrl + 0 - digital art
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St. Gallen, Switzerland

Just released:
CAO CHANG DI ROAD ON NOV 24 2009 I STOOD THERE WAITING
HD video projection, 41:43' loop





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