ALEXANDER HAHN
electronic media artist
ABOUT
VIDEO
SPACE
Transit of Earth
The Ruins of Naurattan
Transmission
The Swift Erosion of a Crater through Human Intervention
Albedo 0.30
Watching a Gora Drive by
Triumph of Labor
Gentleman of the Road
Kareena
Tectonic Shifts
Rationalization of Sight
Moonlighting :: Dance by Lunar Polarity
Boy by the Ganges
CFL - Coded Fluorescent Light
The Dead
Kareena
Tectonic Shifts
Rationalization of Sight
Moonlighting : Dance by Lunar Polarity
CFL-Coded Fluorescent Light
Boy by the Ganges
The Dead
The Dead | Vito Acconci
The Dead | Dinanath Pathy
The Dead | Taylor Mead
The Dead | Lou Reed
The Dead | Max Mathews
Julie at the Beach
Morse Rigveda
ON
Cao Chang Di Road
Public Spaces - Private Strangers
Propitious Stars - Master of the Staring Eyes
Luminous Point
Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus
Rabbit in your Healights
5 Anamorphoses - The Dead
Plant Cycle
The Dead :: 5 Anamorphoses
Julie at the Beach
Morse Rigveda
ON
Cao Chang Di Road
Public Places - Private Strangers
Propitious Stars - Master of the Staring Eye
Luminous Point
Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus
Rabbit in your Headlights
Plant Cycle
On that day with Juliusz
Moving Vast Amounts of Water to a Barren Place
N 36º25’12” - W 116º48’43” (Zabriskie Point)
Stonehenge
My Own Private Universe - The Great Attractor
My Life as a Ghost
The Invisible Never Happens
Memory of Light - Light of Memory
I Came Here to Sleep
Séance
On the Nature of Things
Of Shadow & Light - Riddle of Images
Fundamentls of Legerdemain
Urbs Turrita - City of Towers
The Bernoulli Itinerary
Arthur
Aviation Memories
Urban Memories
Dream of Zanzibar
Cyborgs & Other New Machines
It that once computed the Fibonacci Numbers to Infinity
It's supposed to happen automatically ...
It That Once Beat The Masters
Magick Piece
The Air is Full of Voices
Family Blue
Android Plant
Plant #2-78/278
Plant #2-16/349
Moving Vast Amounts of Water to a Barren Place
N 36º25’12” - W 116º48’43” (Zabriskie Point)
Stonehenge
My Own Private Universe - the great attractor
My Life as a Ghost
The Invisible Never Happens
Memory of Light - Light of Memory
I Came Here to Sleep
Séance
On the Nature of Things
Of Shadow & Light - Riddle of Images
Fundamentals of Legerdemain
Urbs Turrita - City of Towers
The Bernoulli Itinerary
Arthur
Aviation Memories
Urban Memories
Dream of Zanzibar
Cyborgs & Other New Machines
It That Once Computed the Fibonacci Numbers to Infinity
It's supposed to happen automatically but in Reality you must press this Button
It that once beat the Masters
Magick Piece
The Air is Full of Voices
Family Blue
Android Plant
Plant #2-78/278
Plant #2-16/349
IMAGE
Tough Older Women ... (Medusa)
Time and Again
Here Time Turns Into Space
Plein-air - Spectacle of Public & Private Calamities
Coup d'œil
Public Places - Private Encounters
A.I.: Simulated Drawings - Spurious Engravings
- And I Build a Crooked Space
The Artist's Studio as Encryption Lab
Germania Flats
Remade Topographies
Vault
Early Works
CV
NEWS
ABOUT
VIDEO
SPACE
Transit of Earth
The Ruins of Naurattan
Transmission
The Swift Erosion of a Crater through Human Intervention
Albedo 0.30
Watching a Gora Drive by
Triumph of Labor
Gentleman of the Road
Kareena
Tectonic Shifts
Rationalization of Sight
Moonlighting :: Dance by Lunar Polarity
Boy by the Ganges
CFL - Coded Fluorescent Light
The Dead
Kareena
Tectonic Shifts
Rationalization of Sight
Moonlighting : Dance by Lunar Polarity
CFL-Coded Fluorescent Light
Boy by the Ganges
The Dead
The Dead | Vito Acconci
The Dead | Dinanath Pathy
The Dead | Taylor Mead
The Dead | Lou Reed
The Dead | Max Mathews
Julie at the Beach
Morse Rigveda
ON
Cao Chang Di Road
Public Spaces - Private Strangers
Propitious Stars - Master of the Staring Eyes
Luminous Point
Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus
Rabbit in your Healights
5 Anamorphoses - The Dead
Plant Cycle
The Dead :: 5 Anamorphoses
Julie at the Beach
Morse Rigveda
ON
Cao Chang Di Road
Public Places - Private Strangers
Propitious Stars - Master of the Staring Eye
Luminous Point
Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus
Rabbit in your Headlights
Plant Cycle
On that day with Juliusz
Moving Vast Amounts of Water to a Barren Place
N 36º25’12” - W 116º48’43” (Zabriskie Point)
Stonehenge
My Own Private Universe - The Great Attractor
My Life as a Ghost
The Invisible Never Happens
Memory of Light - Light of Memory
I Came Here to Sleep
Séance
On the Nature of Things
Of Shadow & Light - Riddle of Images
Fundamentls of Legerdemain
Urbs Turrita - City of Towers
The Bernoulli Itinerary
Arthur
Aviation Memories
Urban Memories
Dream of Zanzibar
Cyborgs & Other New Machines
It that once computed the Fibonacci Numbers to Infinity
It's supposed to happen automatically ...
It That Once Beat The Masters
Magick Piece
The Air is Full of Voices
Family Blue
Android Plant
Plant #2-78/278
Plant #2-16/349
Moving Vast Amounts of Water to a Barren Place
N 36º25’12” - W 116º48’43” (Zabriskie Point)
Stonehenge
My Own Private Universe - the great attractor
My Life as a Ghost
The Invisible Never Happens
Memory of Light - Light of Memory
I Came Here to Sleep
Séance
On the Nature of Things
Of Shadow & Light - Riddle of Images
Fundamentals of Legerdemain
Urbs Turrita - City of Towers
The Bernoulli Itinerary
Arthur
Aviation Memories
Urban Memories
Dream of Zanzibar
Cyborgs & Other New Machines
It That Once Computed the Fibonacci Numbers to Infinity
It's supposed to happen automatically but in Reality you must press this Button
It that once beat the Masters
Magick Piece
The Air is Full of Voices
Family Blue
Android Plant
Plant #2-78/278
Plant #2-16/349
IMAGE
Tough Older Women ... (Medusa)
Time and Again
Here Time Turns Into Space
Plein-air - Spectacle of Public & Private Calamities
Coup d'œil
Public Places - Private Encounters
A.I.: Simulated Drawings - Spurious Engravings
- And I Build a Crooked Space
The Artist's Studio as Encryption Lab
Germania Flats
Remade Topographies
Vault
Early Works
CV
NEWS
ABOUT
VIDEO
SPACE
Transit of Earth
The Ruins of Naurattan
Transmission
The Swift Erosion of a Crater through Human Intervention
Albedo 0.30
Watching a Gora Drive by
Triumph of Labor
Gentleman of the Road
Kareena
Tectonic Shifts
Rationalization of Sight
Moonlighting :: Dance by Lunar Polarity
Boy by the Ganges
CFL - Coded Fluorescent Light
The Dead
Kareena
Tectonic Shifts
Rationalization of Sight
Moonlighting : Dance by Lunar Polarity
CFL-Coded Fluorescent Light
Boy by the Ganges
The Dead
The Dead | Vito Acconci
The Dead | Dinanath Pathy
The Dead | Taylor Mead
The Dead | Lou Reed
The Dead | Max Mathews
Julie at the Beach
Morse Rigveda
ON
Cao Chang Di Road
Public Spaces - Private Strangers
Propitious Stars - Master of the Staring Eyes
Luminous Point
Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus
Rabbit in your Healights
5 Anamorphoses - The Dead
Plant Cycle
The Dead :: 5 Anamorphoses
Julie at the Beach
Morse Rigveda
ON
Cao Chang Di Road
Public Places - Private Strangers
Propitious Stars - Master of the Staring Eye
Luminous Point
Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus
Rabbit in your Headlights
Plant Cycle
On that day with Juliusz
Moving Vast Amounts of Water to a Barren Place
N 36º25’12” - W 116º48’43” (Zabriskie Point)
Stonehenge
My Own Private Universe - The Great Attractor
My Life as a Ghost
The Invisible Never Happens
Memory of Light - Light of Memory
I Came Here to Sleep
Séance
On the Nature of Things
Of Shadow & Light - Riddle of Images
Fundamentls of Legerdemain
Urbs Turrita - City of Towers
The Bernoulli Itinerary
Arthur
Aviation Memories
Urban Memories
Dream of Zanzibar
Cyborgs & Other New Machines
It that once computed the Fibonacci Numbers to Infinity
It's supposed to happen automatically ...
It That Once Beat The Masters
Magick Piece
The Air is Full of Voices
Family Blue
Android Plant
Plant #2-78/278
Plant #2-16/349
Moving Vast Amounts of Water to a Barren Place
N 36º25’12” - W 116º48’43” (Zabriskie Point)
Stonehenge
My Own Private Universe - the great attractor
My Life as a Ghost
The Invisible Never Happens
Memory of Light - Light of Memory
I Came Here to Sleep
Séance
On the Nature of Things
Of Shadow & Light - Riddle of Images
Fundamentals of Legerdemain
Urbs Turrita - City of Towers
The Bernoulli Itinerary
Arthur
Aviation Memories
Urban Memories
Dream of Zanzibar
Cyborgs & Other New Machines
It That Once Computed the Fibonacci Numbers to Infinity
It's supposed to happen automatically but in Reality you must press this Button
It that once beat the Masters
Magick Piece
The Air is Full of Voices
Family Blue
Android Plant
Plant #2-78/278
Plant #2-16/349
IMAGE
Tough Older Women ... (Medusa)
Time and Again
Here Time Turns Into Space
Plein-air - Spectacle of Public & Private Calamities
Coup d'œil
Public Places - Private Encounters
A.I.: Simulated Drawings - Spurious Engravings
- And I Build a Crooked Space
The Artist's Studio as Encryption Lab
Germania Flats
Remade Topographies
Vault
Early Works
CV
NEWS
photo © Stephan Rohner
(Thomas Daniell and)
THE RUINS OF NAURATTAN
2022, video installation,
kinetic object (rear view mirror with LCD monitor,
280 rpm 6V DC motor with wheel, speed controller,
spring steel band, mounting hardware, brass doorstop,
media player with SD video, mounted on cherry wood block), 30.5 × 30.5 × 25.4 cm
HD video projection, 60 sec loop, size variable
Blossom Village is a resort in Sidhpur, situated near Dharamsala in northern India. There, in his room, Alexander Hahn saw a reproduction of «The Ruins of Naurattan», originally a painting from the famous India cycle by Thomas Daniell (1749-1840) and his nephew William Daniell (1769-1837). From 1786, the Daniells traveled throughout India painting landscapes,. Their works were widely appreciated and are representative of the fascinating period of exploration in the late 18th century. Today, the ruins of Naurattan, part of the palace in Sasaram, Bihar, no longer exist. But in Alexander Hahn's projection, we even drive through the site in a rattling Indian auto rickshaw. A stone tablet lying on the ground distracts us. It crumbles. We fall down the rabbit hole and finally emerge back to daylight, again in front of the ruins. Now, the journey begins again.