Thorsten Knaub

Positioning the camera facing upwards on the ground...
(resulting 36 images)

Positioning the camera facing upwards on the ground...
(single print)

Positioning the camera facing upwards on the ground...
(single print)

Positioning the camera facing upwards on the ground...
(extract of video)

Positioning the camera facing upwards on the ground and after activating the delayed shutter release, jumping off a tree stump over the camera with the intention to take a picture of myself above it in the air (2001)
36 colour prints, video monitor
DVD PAL, 17:57 min, loop play
Mini-DV Master

The work deals with the nature of image making and the merging of exercise, game, ritual and artistic process.

"I remember wondering whether as an artist I ever do anything but imitate an imaginary memory, and asking myself what could happen when somebody in the future came across only the remnants of the photographic prints or a title of these works: would they try to rediscover the skills of the fictional lost tradition to which these remnants refer?"