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Feature 80
-Inversion-
PORTRAIT IN BETWEEN THE INVISIBLE AND THE FACTS
INVERSION - 4.20 mins
PORTRAIT IN BETWEEN THE INVISIBLE AND THE FACTS
Film by Patricia von Ah
A Wind Tunnel Artistic Contribution, Presenting Esther Mathis
Audio: “Impression Of The Raw” from the Album “The Venice Session” by Sound Kite Orchestra, released on Dinzu Artefacts 2020
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The laboratory of Florian Dombois, professor for Experimental Systems in Transdisciplinarity Studies is located on the roof of the University of the Arts in Zürich. It is a wind tunnel that functions as a space of collaboration and exchange amongst artists; artisan and scientists; people and spiritists. Florian Dombois works there with his transdisciplinary group of students, PhDs and Postdocs, as well as welcoming guests from everywhere. The wind tunnel remains “empty” inside, like the Tao Teh King says: “Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends.” (no. 11). Or as Hans-Jürg Rheinberger described it in his first visit 2013 “The wind tunnel is a model of a second order and at the same time unsettlingly specific.” Florian Dombois invited Patricia von Ah to create a portrait in between the invisible and the facts. The intense collaboration and exchange taking finally the for m of a small scale documentary archive including short films, social media snippets and photographs. The film INVERSION, Patricia’s personal artistic work during this project, portrays the unseen space within the wind tunnel. Presenting the artist Esther Mathis exploring the circular space of the invisible. Experiencing inversion, delicateness and the unspoken power of the wind.
