Playground

Choreographer Philipp Gehmacher and video artist Vladimir Miller create a video installation that can be viewed from all sides and that demonstrates how each decision in favour of a particular viewing angle is at the same time a decision against possible others. In maritime language “dead reckoning” refers to a method of navigation that is not based on absolute fixed points outside of the ship as lighthouses or stars. The current position is estimated on the basis of the last determined course and elapsed time – orientation thus becomes a constant forecast.
In Gehmacher’s and Miller’s installation, human-size projections of three dancers on two intersecting screens stake out an image space that seems to show us everything but in fact only shows us excerpts.

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