Showing posts with label Hajnal Nemeth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hajnal Nemeth. Show all posts

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 [...]