163 King Street West, Toronto - H. Lippmann / A. Hofstetter

Holger Lippmann in coop with Alekos Hofstetter

163 King Street West/ Goethe-Institut, Toronto
In their work entitled „163 KING STREET WEST, TORONTO," Berlin artists Alekos Hofstetter and Holger Lippmann show us the dissolution of architecture. In a complex 3d simulation we experience the digital deconstruction of the Goethe-Institut Toronto. This computer animation is the realization of a commission for the Goethe-Institut Toronto Gallery within the context of the exhibition series entitled URBAN DECONSTRUCTIONS, which began in March 2006. The installation was also exhibited in May 2006 in the Berlin gallery called West Germany.

Holger Lippmann and Alekos Hofstetter's piece does not simply offer a simulation of destructive developments, but rather constructs a new immaterial reality of permanent dissolution. Everything is always available in the virtual world -- and so everything is seemingly interchangeable. However, perception in "163 King Street West Toronto" does not necessarily mutate into an experience of loss, but rather, the dissolution of the existing structure can, despite a definite sense of unease, mean liberation. All fragments of the building are of equal value in the never ending "explosion." Everything flies apart, and within this destruction each piece of the whole loses its meaning. Everything is in motion, nothing stands still (panta rhei).

We experience the dissolution of the tactile. Volume is redefined in an unending stream of changing perspectives, presence results out of visual information. The continuous flying apart of the object, of the building at 163 King Street West, destabilizes the identity of the viewer. The production of sense, symbol, meaning is neutralized through this destruction. Matter is replaced by information about the permanent disappearance of the object. The information (as short-circuit between the event and its effect), its all-pervasiveness, its inter-linking and simultaneity neutralizes history into the present. The only point of reference remaining is dissolution. Destruction disappears in speed. In this computer animation Holger Lippmann and Alekos Hofstetter demonstrate the progressive loss of the meaning of space. It is now a question of time.

Dr. Daniel H. Wild, 2006

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Holger
• Lippmann
• Alekos
• Hofstetter
• visual
• art
• toronto
• 3d
• simulation
• destruction
• deconstruction

[omfggoogle]

i scrolled through it ,. i could tell it was going to be a waste of time.

[wrking1]

whoa