Title
REDUX refers to the cinema, where the term "redux" is used
to denote a new interpretation of an existing work by the restoration
of previously removed material. Concentrating on one frame taken from
their 2007 remake "In the mood for...", artists used a
digital sewing machine as well as computer graphics algorithms to
generate gradually changing patterns of space and motion
(CIRCULATION). The classical movie is reconstructed and generated in
a new mood, running through several stages of image analysis and
recalculation.
In
the installation REDUX the movie of Wong Kar-Wai is remixed, deconstructed and regenerated in an
analytic process: The pictures run through several stages of image
analysis and recalculation. In the first part the short movie remix "In
The Mood For..." shows the protagonists connected by a stitched
line. This line acts as the artist' comment on the mood between the
lovers, dancing with their cigarette smoke and eventually turning
into rain.
As
a second step "redux/circulation" takes the idea of a remix
one step ahead: One frame of the short movie is scaled up and split
into several textile tiles, stitched by a digital sewing machine.
Those patterned plates are sent into a self organized computer
process, where new connection lines "grow" between the
cross-stitches. In the Installation the computer generated patterns
as well as the textile plates are opposed to the original short
movie.
The
artistic collaboration between textile artist Inga Liksaite and
animation artist Claudia Rohrmoser evolved of their common idea to
use a sewing machine as a tool for drawing. Inga's expertise in
sewing seemed to be the perfect match to Claudia's animation skills.
Their short movies and installations reflect on motion pictures ("In
The Mood For") and describe the circulating process of
transforming different media sources into movement and from there
trace fragments back to stitched stills hanging on the wall
(''Redux'').
Animation: Claudia Rohrmoser
Textiles: Inga Liksaite