Broadway Cinema Talk:
Mariele Neudecker, Kindertotenlieder (exhibited in the Bonington Gallery at NTU).
The video installations reveal how she sets up technical equipment. She doesn't hide anything from the viewer because she believes that by hiding cables, wires and the back of installation spaces with black cloth and gaffa tape turns the work into something theatrical.
She shot the footage in this installation on 16mm film as this method gives less pixelation and a better quality when enlarged rather than digital.
Past artwork explores the use of tanks by creating miniature worlds that have been referred to as folk - like German fairy tales, because of the way in which they have been constructed and how the viewer has a sense of actually entering this environment.
Her hot air balloon video shows Mariele gathering footage by hanging a video camera over the side of the balloon basket and filming within people’s houses (some houses in Luxembourg do not have roofs- so this was a very voyeuristic act.) I was most interested in this video work because of the way in which it intruded on people's personal lives but at the same time was a document of observation.
Mariele Neudecker I Don't Know How I Resisted The Urge To Run 1998
