Lenz聽forms part of the four-part聽Firewall聽exhibition, exploring the concept of doors.
Typically doors are viewed as human inventions. However they precede and transcend the human world. Not only do they appear in the natural world, amongst animals and insects, but they are also found in the physical world of the atmosphere. It is the interrelationship between their human and non-human occurrence that is the focus of聽Firewall. The term聽Firewall聽characterises one function of a door, namely its immunological qualities, keeping danger at bay while protecting the contents. It explores this through an imaginary descent from heights of the atmosphere through a layer of doors down to ground level.
Lenz聽explores the concept of doors using the image of clouds as doors, doors that hover above and shroud the planet. Shot from a helicopter 3km above sea level, it is an adaptation of the 1836 novella聽Lenz聽by Georg Buchner.
Projected onto a 5m wide screen hovering above the audience, viewers are able to see the cloudscape by scaling a large staircase opposite the screen that is sinking unevenly into the floor.
Lenz聽is an experimental component of the聽Nebula听辫谤辞箩别肠迟.
- Overview
- Exhibition
- Credits
Project Director:听Dennis Del Favero
Programmer: Rob Lawther
Project Funding: Australia Council for the Arts
2014
Single channel video installation
Video. 3.30 minutes. BW. Stereo
- Tactical Imagery, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, 2015
- Firewall, William Wright Artists Projects, Sydney, 2014
Director and Designer:聽Dennis Del Favero
Cinematography:聽Nathan Tomlinson
Script:聽Adapted by Dennis Del Favero from Lenz by Georg Buchner
Video and Audio Engineer:聽Rob Lawther
Music:聽Kate Moore
Voice-Over:聽Sacha Horler
Staircase:聽Wild Sets
Installation Modelling:聽Jessica Dawkins