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‘The
secret place of the most high’ 2003 (Click
here to get information about the single channel version of
the work)
A
videowork of Peter
Bogers based on present-day global political and religious contrapositions. Bogers
uses video- and
sound recordings taken from international satellite transmitters whose
programs are based on religion. He creates delicate combinations of
chanted Koran texts and images of an American TV-priest. The contrast
is put to its maximum and at the same time emotional and intentional
connexions are created between two juxtaposed philosophies.
In
a (large) room a monitor is placed on a socle. It shows the performance of an American TV-preacher,
recorded from an international religious satellite channel called
‘God’. With regular intervals the preachers speech is replaced by
the sound of chanted, more or less lip synchronised, Koran texts.
The original
speech audio-parts are directly connected to the image on the monitor.
The Koran texts are played through two horn-loudspeakers which are
attached to the ceiling. |
