BURKHARD SCHITTNY, Fineart

extensions

EXTENSIONS
PERFORMANCES SERIES 2001

7-channel video installation / Loop: 2 min 38 s – 5 min 4 s / 4:3 / Sound / Colour /
Displays: 33 x 40 cm (13 x 16 in) or LCD projection / One display per video / Dimensions variable

INTRODUCTION
The seven-part video performance documents the attempt to move a body through a room. In each of the seven videos, its mobility is deliberately restricted by prosthesis-like extensions attached to the arms and legs.

Ranging in duration from 2:38 to 5:04 minutes, the performances take on an extraordinary physical and psychological intensity. The prosthetic extensions lose their intended function: rather than providing support, they become obstacles. Through this radical reduction of means, the work becomes a metaphor for existential conditions such as despair, helplessness, uncertainty, anonymity, loneliness, and alienation.

Extensions tells of continual failure, of an existential stumbling and limping—without the prospect of redemption or resolution.

Extension 1 / 00:05:03 / 4:3 / color / sound

Extension 2 / 00:03:21 / 4:3 / color / sound

Extension 3 / 00:03:50 / 4:3 / color / sound

Extension 4 / 00:03:46 / 4:3 / color / sound

Extension 5 / 00:05:04 / 4:3 / color / sound

Extension 6 / 00:04:23 / 4:3 / color / sound

Extension 7 / 00:02:38 / 4:3 / color / sound

INSTALLATION VIEW / Extension 1-7 / each screen 33 x 40 cm / 13 x 16 in
loop 00:02:38 - 00:05:04 / color / sound