Postlinie (Postline), 1998

Two-part installation, 2-channel, car with video projection and monitor, telephone booth with manipulated card phone, Square at Färbergraben, Munich, Video projection, DV, 4:3, Color, sound, Loop 3’12, Monitor, DV, 4:3, Color, Loop 4’37

Postline unites two locations by means of a fictive telephone conversation. In a telephone booth in front of the post office, passers by fortuitously listen to the TV-commissar (Elmar Wepper). In aparking garage across the street, you can observe the antagonist (Rufus Beck) in a park limousine, engaged in the same conversation. Brief video sequences on a surveillance monitor offer spectators views of events transpiring in the square. The commisar seems to be hot on the trail of an alternative communication system, perhabs a subversive competition to the sate-owend postal service. Thomas Pynchon’s novel The Crying of Lot 49, with the motif of an undergroud postal service, shrouded in secrecy, provides the idea for this filmic-spatial translation.

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