Tuesday 8 May 2012


Rows of houses in a fictitious metropolis are overflowing. The facades of high-rise buildings and bizarre constructions are reflected in the water, the streets seem empty and deserted. 2027, the title of this video installation of Haubitz + Zoche relates to the year of the plot in Fritz Lang�s film Metropolis, which plays exactly 100 years from it�s publication year. A distance that, facing our temporal closeness, attends to the negative futuristic visions we have now approached.
Maybe the slow, dreamily blurring recordings of the various house models can be read as distorted reference to current experiences of Langs urbanistic dystopia. With them the scope of ideas between revolutional architecture, modern functionality and post moderness is measured; But only to eventually dissolve in the diffusely moving blue water far from time or space. In the same unreal and upside down picturesque scope the swimmers enact with one another, seemingly searching for support in weightlessness and control in mayhem.
In all allusions Haubitz + Zoche avoid direct relations to current ecological, social or cultural problems. Instead topics such as dissolution, destabilisation and decentralisation are encompassed � in both form and content. Equally important are the specific locations and their conditions. The aesthetic value also counts: Pictures of suggestive beauty; Pictures, which create such hypnotic suctions, that it is forgotten, which horizon reigns and what levels must still be overcome.
The Artist Duo Haubitz + Zoche
Haubitz + Zoche (Sabine Haubitz, born in 1959, and Stefanie Zoche, born in 1965) have been working together since 1998. Sabine Haubitz studied at the Hochschule der K�nste Berlin as well as at the Akademie der Bildenden K�nste Munich and was Andreas von Weizs�cker's assistant from 1993-96. She received the Kodak Award for Young Artists in 1988 and a project stipend from the City of Munich in 1996. Stefanie Zoche studied at Middlesex Polytechnic in London. From 1995-97, she had a stipend from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture and was assistant for the Klasse McBride in Munich from 1999-2000. Her photo and video work as well as her installations have been exhibited in Sweden, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the USA. The artists display their work in Munich's Museum of Photography, the Galerie Walter Storms in Munich, and in the Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico. One of their most recent photography projects is called Sinai Hotels. The photo series shows unfinished hotel resorts in the desert of the Egyptian Sinai peninsula. The photo volume Sinai Hotels won Haubitz and Zoche the German Photography Book Prize 2006/2007.
Haubitz + Zoche's works in public space range from space, photo, and kinetic installations to sculptural work. Spectacular photo installations were displayed in Rotterdam in the Maastunnel and in the Munich subway system. In addition, the artist duo has created location-specific installations for public institutions as well as for companies like the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Deka Bank, Luxemburg, and Allianz, Munich.

Concept and realisation: Haubitz + Zoche
City views:
Underwater studio and technical implementation:
Uwe Steckhan, Filmyard, Berlin
Underwater camera: Stefan Lindenau
Model construction: Julie Goll, Haubitz + Zoche
Synchronised swimmers:
Carole Rausch, Bettina Wrase (Isarnixen, Munich)
Underwater camera: Haubitz + Zoche
Location: Olympiabad Munich
Video cut: Haubitz + Zoche
Video editing: Toni Maroni

http://www.osram.ec/osram_ec/Informacion_Corporativa/Proyectos_Artisticos_de_OSRAM/SEVEN_SCREENS/Previous_Installations/Haubitz_%2B_Zoche/index.html            
sourced 8th May 2012

These are beautiful....if only I could!! 


The thing to consider is that I can't BUT what can I achieve instead?

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