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Heaven 1995
The
original work was made in 1995 commissioned by the ‘Festival aan de Werf’ in Utrecht, which
is a yearly theatre festival, including visual art projects on special
locations into its concept. Together
with the organisation of the festival, a small empty house was found
in the centre of Utrecht. This house was on the nomination to be broken
down. Except for the wooden floors, all three rooms of it were painted
white. People were free to enter, and scattering around the rooms
they encountered a great many small black and white monitors. The images
on all of these monitors last no longer then one second, and accompanied
by sound are played forward for one second and backward for one second,
in endless repetition. The viewer can concentrate on one specific
picture and the belonging sound, but he/she can also experience the
mixed sounds as a rhythmic
machine, gradually changing when walking around. One
of the pictures is shown on a small TV, with an antenna attached to
it. It is also the only picture that is brought inside the enclosed
walls of the house, from the outside world. The images were broadcasted on Dutch television in 1995. We see a live recording, made by a surveillance
camera, of the actual start of the earthquake in Kobe Japan. Again
one second of this broadcast has been isolated, and is played back
and forth. Due
to the purchase of the work by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, a second
version of the work has been made in 1996. All
monitors are placed on one room. Not all of the sounds are played
at the same time anymore, a gradually changing composition is created. For
instance, at a certain point one can hear a combination of three sounds,
let’s say: The ticking clock, the cat and the door. Gradually the
door-sound is faded out and replaced by the heartbeat sound, and so
forth.
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