Berlin-based artist Hajnal Németh was chosen for the Hungarian Pavillion at Biennale 2011 in Venice. We congratulate and are looking forward to her contribution "CRASH". The official website of the hungarian pavillion you find here: www.velenceibiennale.com. You can get her videos and photography editions at PHOTO EDITION BERLIN. Please contact us for further details.
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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.
As the music mutates there is another performative aspect of the gesture and of the 'instrument-object' that enters the film frame. In “Air Out” even the organs' console appears placed into a niche that resembles a small stage. This transition from audibl...