Flicker Film, Carsten Höller

Produktion des Kunstwerks. Für seine Ausstellung im [mac] musée d’art contemporain de Marseille, 2004

There are, however, two startling exceptions to this characterization at mac. These might also function to generate doubt, though Höller’s method here is ultimately a questionable one. The body emerges as an icon in a mass spectacle in both Moving Image, 2004, which features an image of Muhammad Ali about to knock out George Foreman at Kinshasa in 1974, and in Flicker Film, 2004, which deploys the phi effect to make a dancer jump between two flashing, identical projections of a Werrason concert, filmed at the same stadium in 2001. Showing these works together may be a nod to Leon Gast’s 1996 documentary When We Were Kings, …

Jennifer Allen – ARTFORUM

Kunde: Carsten Höller / Galerie Air de Paris