Monday, July 16, 2007

Falling

I was always very much interested in the metaphor of falling, loosing control, sawing oneself off the branch one sits on, moving from one space into an-other or just swaying back and forth. My artistic work seems like an investigations into these metaphors. "Falling" is a piece that came to me while simultanously hiking in the Austrian Alps and working on a competition about re:emergency. I was sliding down a snow field and imagined how it would feel just to let go and: fall. The short video documents the result.
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Friday, July 06, 2007

Halt 2007



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Artist Richard Jochum saws himself off the branch he sits on and falls. Sound: sawing noises, and branch cracking. New York 2007. Continuation of a performance series which started in Vienna 2001.