Deutsch Intermediale (In)Stabilitäten in zeitgenössischen Kunstwerken

Abstract

<p class="ql-align-justify">Intermedial (in)stabilities in contemporary artworks analyzes hybrid forms combining different media and sign systems by confronting them in their diverging materiality and mediality. These pieces are strongly self-reflective, and their (un)stable mode of production gives viewers access to different levels of meanings. What strategies and techniques do artists use to achieve such intermedial effects? How can the experience offered to an audience be described? How do different levels of meaning interact to produce a communicative effect? To answer these questions, we must focus on different layers of the complex configurations. Looking at each layer helps to precisely describe the relationship between the different parts and their effects on the audience. The audience of the fault line (2010), a collaboration between choreographers Meg Stuart and Philipp Gemacher, and the visual artist Vladimir Miller, is confronted with a performance transferred in different medial contexts, settings, and environments. Viewers and listeners reflect on the different contexts by making comparisons among them, an interaction forced by how the artists combine their performative video installation’s different parts: the event’s performance and its projection as constantly trans-formed in a different time and space by Miller and the operations as a form of examination of images produced by the live event. These different spaces, in which presented bodies and their representation occupy the center, visibly diverge throughout the performance.&nbsp;