ANRI SALA
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ANRI SALA
Missing Landscape Each time the ball disappears, the goalkeeper follows it, and vanishes into the "missing landscape". Whenever he returns, he enters through a door to get back into the playground. This action resembles the theatre convention where the actor moves from the kitchen to the waiting room through the trapdoor, even though there are no walls or visible boundaries between the rooms in the scene. The actor defines the entrances to the different spaces. Every time the children enter the playground through the goals, defining a space within a space where there are no walls. They are unconsciously cutting the playground off from the world, from the surrounding mountains. They are playing the game and the play! There are moments of tension and violence: such as a rock thrown at a player. The children play the roles of the adults living in the “missing landscape”. They also score quite a few great goals. ©2001-Anri Sala Natural Mystic Usually the work is shown on a very luxurious set: a fine LC screen, on a shining metal pole. Everything seems so hi-tech and perfect, that one would love to have that “piece of technology at home”. Then you come close to the screen, take on the headphones and there you get lost to a whirling sound, that seems to start from far away, get closer and closer until your head shakes with the wind, and then fade away in distance again, to almost disappear and end up in some funny “pughhh”. Indeed, what you see in front of you is a musician in a recording studio. Everything is around him, instruments, drums, keyboard, but he prefers to simply use his whistle in the microphone. It’s an environment created by the whirling sound, which transmits to the viewer-listener a personal experience, that of the musician himself, while he had listening to the tomahawk missiles flying over his head, exploding somewhere else in the city. Even though the image in front of you is the same, the picture in your head is something completely different… Edi Muka |