Gras

A photo installation by Georg Blaschke and Laurent Ziegler

In a series of Aktionen performer Georg Blaschke exposes his body to the eye of photographer Laurent Ziegler. The body becomes the underlying ground for serial choreographic arrangements and superimpositions of organic substances, which provoke formal bodily extensions in the images perceived as inner and outer landscapes. This setting allows a sensual experience on the border of perception and results in an astonishing interplay between image, choreography and action. An intimate dance on the horizon of focus and haziness. The aim is not to display individual sceneries on the surface level but to see the unseen, to inquire what meets the eye underneath the obvious and familiar. Gras invites the audience to dwell upon the suggestive power of the pictures and to undergo a sensual experience brought to a standstill.

The photographs are published as a series of 12 C4 prints in 110 × 165 cm (mounted, limited edition 2013). Six metallic walls, on which the prints are leaning, form two double-sided triptychs that the viewer could access from both sides. The installation was shown at:
odaada Gallery Vienna, 2014
9th Burgenländische Tanztage, OHO Gallery, Offenes Haus Oberwart , 2014
ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival #30, Odeon Theater Wien , 2013

Gras is a production M. A. P. Vienna 2013 and has been realised with the kind support of the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, the Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival and Cyberlab.

“One of the greatest challenges in today’s culture, urgently necessary from a political point of view, is how to bring analytical skills to bear on the perceptual physiological lan­guage of the image, an event and not an object — constantly changing, living and growing.”
Bill Viola, Unseen Images, 1992