Loop Unlimited

Director: Franz Wanner    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Franz Wanner, born in 1975, finished his training as a photographer and filmmaker before studying fine arts and media theory at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Academy of Fine Arts, Munich). Texts, photo series, films, and objects have been published under the pseudonym Franz Wanner since 1996. In his book The Presumption (2011) they appear as the plot of a nonlinear screenplay. In 2012 he received the City of Munich’s Scholarship for Fine Arts. Since then he has been working on the narrative cycle Toxin – Antitoxin. Clinical Pictures of a Town, which was shown for the first time in 2013 at the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig. Since 2009, Franz Wanner has lectured at several universities and teaching institutions in the fields of fine art and film.

Director: Stefan Römer    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: From 1986 to 1991, Stefan Römer studied art history, ethnology and comparative religious studies at the universities of Bonn, Cologne and Berlin. In 2003 he became professor for new media at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Stefan Römer's art and writing are devoted to de-conceptual art, criticism of space, relationship between image and text in art and new media, as well as intercultural aspects. He makes videos/film, photography, installations, painting and performaces.

Country: Germany

Year: 2011

Synopsis: How can we reflect artistically upon the phenomenon of retro-chic and cultural repetition? In four video loops, “Loop Unlimited” presents a thematic link between machine and artistic effect. The soundtracks are composed in such a way that when the clips of different lengths are played in parallel in the same room, the acoustic impression is always different. The images are complemented with texts that are spoken and superimposed on the visual track to form a self-reflexive loop narrative.
Audio: “I Listen” The echo machines from the 1960s and 1970s shown and used for the soundtrack are currently undergoing a renaissance in a broad range of popular music styles.
Video: “I Watch” The film loop machine as a rebuilt projector is shown as a fetishistic exhibition object of the contemporary art world.
Laboro: “I Work,” “I Try” Red brushes are seen in a repetitive motion in the ambiguity of painting and cleaning.
Facio: “I Make” Borrowing from Orson Welles’ film F for Fake, a woman’s voice challenges the audience to take part in the production and destruction of images and their commercial value.

Language: German