Zangemeister, W. H.: "Ad Gabriele Leidloff: Video
of a Moving Visual Object",
in:
U. Frohne (ed.), video cult/ures. multimediale Installationen der 90er Jahre, DuMont,
Köln 1999
The flood
of images we are so used to is so overwhelming that often only stills, "situative
process of ‘frozen‘ movements" may help us to recover these superfluos
But if we
view anything or all of this flood of images, then we may stop to follow these
external pictures with our eyes, i.e. we may stop to apply our continuously
This is
also the point where visual communication - the self and the picture, i.e.
the selves of viewer and artist meeting through the picture, - comes to a
stand-still. Here
Lady Di:
The circular pictures as well as the mystical repetition of the bells in Gabriele
Leidloff‘s video work - a staged scenery of the ‘round-the-clock worldwide
reporting
I.e.,
stand still - focusing onto the viewer‘s internal model - setting the
"mystic drama" to zero. This then permits a new, more intrinsic
communication with the underlying texture and content of the video pictures.
The conversion
of Lady Di‘s dead body into an empty and fuzzy "Moving Visual Object",
as shown in this piece of video work, which is interpreted by the viewer as
laying in the coffin - even so nothing may have been in there as nobody can
be sure of this while watching the repeating video replay - gives the whole
idea of the
Wolfgang H.
Zangemeister, Professor of Neurology, 1998