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Torsten Lauschmann
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
23 June 2010, 6-7.30pm
This month we will be revisiting the Collective Gallery to view Patchwork Cinema, a new body of work by Torsten Lauschmann which deconstructs the experience of time and cinema through the projected image.
As an artist, filmmaker and live performer, Lauschmann celebrates glitches and out-takes, bits in between and images that might be easy to ignore. Born in Germany and based in Glasgow, Lauschmann’s work has evolved beyond straight photography and film works to investigate the mechanics of digital processes, software creation, experimental editing, approaches to performance and the sculptural potential of video installation.
In Patchwork Cinema, Compilation 1, Lauschmann questions the formalised cinema experience and highlights the pivotal point in early cinema when film presentation was not prescribed in the same way. This work is an alternative cinema experience with an assemblage of found film footage with the addition of sound and lighting effects which have been programmed to trigger a further reimagining of how we view film.
Prior to entering Patchwork Cinema, visitors can view Digital Clock (Growing Zeros) 2010 consisting of a looped 24-hour projection of a digital clock with the red numerals changed manually by visible hands. This less formal digital time matches ‘correct time’ local time. We will also be able to see Lauschmann’s experiment with pre-cinema optics which transforms one of Collective’s gallery spaces into a camera obscura.