As Time Goes By
Björn Drenkwitz
9783954762613
100 pages
Distanz Verlag Gmbh Llc
Overview
Björn Drenkwitz (b. Frankfurt am Main, 1978; lives and works in
Frankfurt am Main) works in the fields of video performance and video
portraiture. In his creative engagement with media art and photography,
he conceives of these new media as sculptural elements,
integrating them into expansive installations. Pursuing a trans-media
approach, he often works with actors and singers. The processes he
probes in his video pieces also underlie his conceptual objects, graphic
art, and photography. His work revolves around time, its significance
for video as a linear medium, and the effect of its passage on
the audience’s perceptions, affording the viewer an unmediated experience
of the seconds ticking away, the brief duration of a sensation,
or the calm that comes with focused contemplation.
The book offers a survey of Björn Drenkwitz’s major video projections,
objects, works of graphic art, and photographs of the past several
years. With essays by Sergey Harutoonian and Marco Hompes.
