Photography Visual Storytelling Lecturing
I was a member of the team for the multimedia installation “Goods Money Pleasure” (Güter Geld Genießen) at the exhibition “Work. Meaning and Care ” (Arbeit. Sinn und Sorge) @ Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden (German Hygiene Museum).
Concept and implementation: Praxis für Ausstellungen und Theorie
Scenography: chezweitz | museale und urbane Szenografie
Sound: Daniel Dorsch
Produced by Timm Ringewaldt
My roles: camera, editing, photography, design
The installation with video, photo and audio material from 1928 until today reflects the relationship between work and consumption and illustrates the development of goods, money and enjoyment. This part of the exhibition, the “engine room”, discusses pleasure for all and shows this effect on individuals and society as a whole: work is a means to an end – one works to earn money, to spend it. The desire for consumption is the machine for a demanding society.
Documentation of the exhibition by Timm Ringewaldt.
4 video towers (each with 6 screens) display the process of production in films and 2 projection walls (each with 4 screens) show the effect of the production within a slideshow: pleasure and consumption. The graph of the german stock market, layered over the slideshow, functions as a timeline in the installation.
The closer the visitor steps up to a single tower the more intense the original audio from the film footage emerges.
The visual content is ordered by 8 topics (holiday, hobby, sport, beauty, eating, kitchen, home, society events) and tells a subjective history of consumption over the past 60 years. 4 historical events (moon landing, oil crisis, the fall of the wall, 9/11) interrupt the continuous economic growth and are visually embedded in the installation.
The pulse generator for consumption is money. A disco sphere projects coins and notes from different monetary eras (i.e. East/West-Germany, Euro) into the the hall, sometimes less, sometimes more.
