Audiophile Concepts / Situational Installations
[Tilman Küntzel]: Since I began
to study art at the Hochschule für bildende Kunst in Hamburg in 1984, I
have been concerned with questions about art's reception as it relates to interactions
with audiovisual modes of perception. My installations can be understood as
multimedia arrangements in which signaller systems with audible and visual manifestations,
as well as other associative objects, guide the viewer's own individual perception.
The synergy of acoustic, visual and inter-modal events constitute the work.
Since each observer comes with their own, more audiophile or more visual, perceptual
training, it is especially important to me that both the acoustic and the visual
aspects of a given installation function autonomously. A finely calibrated balance
of events in space allows the different facets of the installation to arise
first in the mind of the viewer, who thereby becomes a protagonist in the work.
In dealing with the specific subject matter or local aspects of an exhibition
situation, each presentation tells a story that can only be told at this particular
place.
