Silent Playground, 2005
DVD & Multi-Screen-Installation
( Plexiscreens, 6 DVD-loops, (16:9),
6 DVD-Player, 6 Beamer, 1 CD- Player, 1-Ton-CD/ One-Channel-Version: 22
min.)
Silent Playground, 2005
Installation view
Silent Playground, 2007
Installation view in Milano
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Silent Playground, shot in the Grand Hyatt Berlin
in collaboration with the actor Inga Busch is informed by the logic and
setting of survival-genre computer games such as Project Zero
or Silent Hill3.
Filmed on steadicam in a variety of situations, the game’s identificatory
protagonist evolves into a hyperrealistic avatar. Cast into changing spatial
scenarios, her deepest desires and fears are exposed to a pattern of ingenious
logic that permits only two options: a happy end or a bad end.
It analyzes a particular genre of mass culture, exploring references to
contemporary film and clichéd notions of problem-solving. Silent
Playground invented a game set-up that convincingly draws on
the film aesthetic of PlayStation, while also acting on the structure
of polar alternatives in our wish projection onto reality.
Video / Quicktimemovie - Download
(1,7 mb)
Cast: Director/Script: Susanne Weirich; Producer: Robert Bramkamp/ BramkampWeirich
GbR; Actor: Inga Busch; Camera: Florian Foest; Editing: Wolf-Ingo Römer;
Production Assistant: Jessica Páez; Make-up: Julia Neuenhausen;
Installation-Technics: Jens Koppe; Thanks to Kirsten Ellerbrake, Harm
Lux, Boris Dornbusch. - With the kind support of Grand Hyatt Berlin and
the Schaubühne Berlin -
Shown at:
2005 |
New York, DIVA Video Art Fair (Galerie müllerdechiara)
Berlin, Galerie müllerdechiara
Cologne, OPEN SPACE, Art Cologne
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2006 |
Dresden, Kunsthaus |
2007 |
Milano (I), Assab One
Gdansk (PL), Whyspa Institute of Art
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2008 |
Saarbrücken, Stadtgalerie |
2019 |
Beijing, 'Grey Cube', Goethe-Institut China, 798 Art District, (PRC) |
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