fragments

accessible visual sound-installation from cri du coeur 2005

In a room, a computer-controlled system of audio, video sequences, sounds, pictures and words are non-visibly stationed. Through the movements of the visitors these items are started. The visitor abides, listens, searches, becomes the „dancer“ in a kaleidoscope of the story.

funded by Kulturamt, Magdeburg

press

painful Magdeburg contrasts

Kwiatkowski have (artistically) crowned many projects with her moving/movement force.
... she proved, that she can do much more than „only“ create physically moving pictures. With her partner Willhad Grafenhorst (musician and computer visualist) she moves her audience via rich video/pictures. Documentary „fragments“ of Magdeburg are flowing one after another, into one anothe, until the observer is emotionally overflowing – at least if this city is dear to him/her...

The visitor of her installation helps to build up the pictures and sounds – if he/she walks up and down before them... he/she melts with picture and sound – quasi with the city and its stories...
Many a visitor comes into a mood for playing with these pictures. This can also be fun – until the pictures of „living-dreams“, which are roused behind Hundertwasser´s scaffolds, tip over into a nightmarish waste land with a hundred dead eyes – dead houses, rows of them, huge dead factory buildings...

Katja Tessnow (Magdeburger Volksstimme)