eppur si muove No. 3

http://www.sebastianmundwiler.ch

--- Description of the Work    

Thanks to the support of the Film and Media Arts Committee BS/BL, Sebastian Mundwiler could be invited for a new production. He presents his work on the three large electronic display panels and the huge LED running strips of Halle Nord and Halle Süd, which are located at the City Lounge of the New Basel Trade Fair Centre. This is a very special public place. The circular hall within the dynamically pulsating architecture of Herzog & de Meuron virtually surrounds the exhibition square and thus marks a gateway to the city centre. Beneath this are tram stops, which regulate the flow of traffic between the Badische Bahnhof railway station and the city centre. Numerous commuters and new arrivals pass through here and during the fairs the visitors frequent here. The unusual architecture is open at the top and forms the so-called "eye to the sky", with the floor plan of the City Lounge itself beeing reminiscent of the shape of an eye.

The videocity.bs experiments will be extended here with regard to addressing and activating the viewers. Since passers-by literally cross the pictorial space on foot, by tram or by bicycle, this offers the opportunity to include them even more. The new artwork installed here is calculated in response to this situation of perception and movement. It constructs an atmosphere of light, colour and movement, capturing in the rotunda of the exhibition architecture as it were the evening light. It is not possible to grasp everything at once in this 360-degree rotunda. These are colour progessions carried over into the day or into the night  which can be woven together with sensations and experiences to form personal images in the mind.

Sebastian Mundwiler was invited because he primarily thinks in his work about the possibilities of perception and how they are conditioned. His video cycle "eppur si  muove", begun in 2013, experiments with a 360 degree rotation of the camera. So the "Eye to the Sky" is ideal for him to continue with this on the largest scale.

Andrea Domesle (translated by Christopher Haley Simpson)

--- Description of the Installation

Site-specific installation on the media facades of the New Trade Fair Centre, Halle Nord and Halle Süd, Messeplatz (2 LED strips and 3 eBoards).

“eppur si muove No. 3” is a site-specific temporial media installation by Sebastian Mundwiler and was shown as a loop. It is videocity.bs commission; the film business would name videocity.bs as producer. 

--- Präsentationshinweise DE  

  Die Präsentation lief ca. 10 Tage länger, ebenso wie der Zyklus "Loneliness" auf dem e-Board des Congress Center Basels.

Geplant ist eine Wiederholung  anlässlich der Museumsnacht, die immer im Januar stattfindet. 2020 kam es nicht dazu, weil an der Messe Basel ein anderer Event lief. 2021 wird wegen Corona ausfallen. 

--- Notes EN

The following artists took part in the "Loneliness" screening on the Congress Center Basel e-board and on the screen at the media library: 

Sylvie Boisseau & Frank Westermeyer, Gregory Buchert, Dimension émotionnelle, Paul Heintz, Luzia Hürzeler, Frantiček Klossner, Theres Liechti, Elodie Pong.

Additionally, there had been a big videocity.bs window at GLOBUS Basel created by the artists Sylvie Boisseau & Frank Westermeyer from 8:00–24:00 Marktplatz 2, May 28 – June 26,

and a huge site-specific installation by Sebastian Mundwiler on the e-boards and LED facade of the City Lounge, Messeplatz, June 27 – August 11.