apparent :


- When jumping off the ground the body leaves to enter the element air.
- There the body persists between raise and fall for a moment in the illusion of weightlessness.
- Eventually the body dives into water. It is a transition from air to the denser element water and leads to the momentary braking of the accelerated body.
- The energy of the fall leaves the stopped body sink for a moment in the water until after a brief pause at the deepest point when  again weightlessness is perceived  it raises again.
- Through the buoyancy and the necessity to breath again the body eventually breaks through the water surface, this time in the other direction, from water to air.

This sequence of movement can be captured in a curve that the jumping body secifies. When it leaves the solid ground to raise into the air and to dive into water from there it flies through a climax

in the air where after a perceived weightlessness the body impacts onto the water surface and sinks to the lowest point in the curve in the other element to raise again after that. The water surface would be the horizon of event above and under which the curve of acceleration and deceleration takes course. But the image that has been taken at the moment of diving under the water surface should not be understood as a recording of physical happenings but is strengthened in its intensity by the place in the basement. Here a cloth where living and dying is represented is mounted like a sail. By the body jumping into water raise and fall are united in one sequence of movement that represents becoming and passing as well as downfall and new creation. In the last exhibition for the year subject BREMSEN we reach with this a metaphysical level of the negative acceleration - the braking that gains power over time by acceptance of transience.

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Literature:
Christoph Hoffmann und Peter Berz (editors):
†ber Schall. (About sound. Ernst Mach and Peter Salchers's bullet photography)
Jean-Francois Lyotard: ImmaterialitŠt und Postmoderne (immateriality and postmodernism).  


Vernissage
Supported by the cultural department of Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg and district office Wandsbek
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