Friday, 31 December 2010

newsfromlabiennale201012

Hajnal Nemeth (Hungary, 1972) is representing Hungary at the 54 La Biennale di Venezia, in 2011
Air Out (4'32'') © 2008, Hajnal Nemeth


At the beginning of Hajnal Némeths' film “Air Out” we hear an organ performance of J. S. Bachs “Air” and see a close up of a static musicians' back. As the camera zooms out and the musician switches off the organs' air pump, the sound of the piece breaks until it disintegrates into a noisy pattern of keyboard and pedal clicks concluding with silence. We discover that the organ-player, shown in full now, is performing a set of convulsive movements and that she resembles a puppet attached by strings to the gigantic instrument [...]

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