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A televi- L P +)1(r\ Eine Sequenz seines Videotapes dringt. ln der Mitte des Raumes his video Coinci- cq) of tape Set of sion screen flickers, hissing to dl -) Coincidence (197 flimmert q :< :F Set of 4) [Cat. ein Fernsehmonitor rau- dence $97 with an ironic exit: a itself at the centre of the room. ht \- L- No. 5, Abb. S. 631 beendet Peter schend vor sich hin. Wdhrend hand to his forehead in a gesture Whilst Campus contemplates the so W Campus mit einem ironischen Campus den Bildschirm betrach- tt of contemplation, he walks out of screen, a second Campus - a SI Abgang: Nachdenklich die Hand tet, tritt fur die Betrachter des the picture as if asking himself rough outline, an 'out of body' of lit (J al a.r { am Kopf, lauft er aus dem Bild, als Tapes ein zweiter Campus auf, what it is all supposed to mean the first Campus - appears to the d, >- trage er sich, was das Ganze schemenhaft, ein of Body' lCat. No. 5, fig. p. 631. Before this viewer of the tape, seen face to q o., P ,Out gese- - a bedeuten soll. des ersten Campus, en face we see him advancing towards the face and considerably larger. Later d, a-- Man sieht ihn zuvor in Richtung hen und deutlich groBer. Spiiter camera - that is, in the direction he is followed by more chimeras; Sr -a-E= der Kamera laufend, also auf die folgen weitere Chimdren, Campus of the viewer. He appears three- Campus standing looklng out of g (J dl o.: € a Betrachter des Tapes zukom- stehend, aus dem Fenster schau- fold in the monitor image, for his the window, Campus walking b a,P mend. lm Monitorbild erscheint end, Campus an der Wand entlang is IT +F movement once reproduced along by the wall - the figure of er verdreifacht, denn seine Bewe- laufend: die Figur des Krlnstlers staggered in time and enlarged, the artist as a multiple actor play- B gung wird noch einmal, zeitver- als multipler Akteur seines Selbst. and a second time the wrong way ing himself. What is initially an M setzt und vergroBert, und ein Was zundchst wie eine lmagination around. We thus encounter a insertion into the picture, like the p weiteres Mal zusdtzlich seitenver- des Protagonisten in das Bild matrioschka Campus, the artist's illusion of the protagonist, gains tr kehrt wiedergegeben. Uns begeg- eingeblendet wird, gewinnt darin video-generated'divided perso- increasing reality within the image K net also ein Madrioschka-Campus, zunehmend Realitat, wdhrend nality', Campus as a constantly whilst the originally dominant, sit- C eine videotechnisch,gespaltene sich die anfangs domrnante sitzen- different figure - and this 20 years ting figure viewed from the back IV Personlichkeit' des Krlnstlers, de Rrickenfigur verfluchtigt und before video-clip culture. evaporates and finally disappears ih Campus als ein immer wieder schlieBlich ganz aus dem Bild The artist projects this tercet of from the picture altogether. "l am Jr G anderer - und das 20 Jahre vor verschwindet. ,,lch bin viel mehr his figure onto the recording of a a potential far more than an actual der Videoclip-Kultur. potentielles Wesen als aktuelles", journey through a tunnel, so that being", Paul Valery once mused - fe Der Ktlnstler projizierl das Terzett sinnierte einst Paul Valery - diese one could think of the so-called and this thought springs to mind G seiner Figur in die Aufzeichnung Uberlegung dringt sich auf, tunnel experience, of psychedeli- when we see Campus'video-gen- C d einer Tunnelfahrt, so dass man wenn man Campus' videotech- cally or psychotherapeutically erated chimeras of himself.2 vi hier an das sogenannte Tunnel- nische lmaginationen seines induced regression. 0n the tape, What was still possible in 1968, tr erlebnis denken kann, die psyche- Selbst betrachtet.2 Campus returns from his artistic when the Death of the Author was D delische oder psychotherapeutisch Was war noch moglich, als 1968 psycho-trip multiplied: he shows proclaimed and "language (not W induzierte Regression. Campus der Tod des Autors verkundet wur- his movement staggered in three the author) was to speak", ?s W kehrt im Tape multipliziert von de und nur mehr,,die Sprache phases of time and in the simul- Roland Barthes postulated?3 Like \4 seinem kunstlerischen Psycho-Trip (anstelle des Autors) sprechen" taneity of video-technical reproduc- many artists of his generation, d zurick: Er zeigt seine Bewegung sollte, wie Roland Barthes postu- tion. The difterence between these as an artist, in his work, Campus K zeifuersetzt in drei Phasen und in lierte?3 Wie viele Kunstler und visualises life and its difference opened up the artist's traditional bo der Gleichzeitigkeit ihrer video- Kunstlerinnen seiner Generation becoming between and fading. role to fresh disposal without a - Jr Kunstler, technischen Reproduktion. ln stellte Campus als das fully abandoning it. He slipped into g deren Differenz wird das Leben in heiBt in seinem Werk, die her- the role of a model for his own k' seiner Differenz zwischen Werden kommliche Rolle des Ktinstlers zur scenic fictions. After L970, many G und Vergehen sichtbar. Disposition - ohne sie aufzuge- artists sought new constellations ben. Er schlupfte in die Rolle des in this field by working with the Modells seiner szenischen Fiktio- body as the other within the self. nen. Nach 1970 suchten viele They appeared with many facets, Kunstlerinnen und Kunstler in der 1 Marcel Duchamp lilarce! Duchamp around a Table, L9l7 photomontage als dem Selbst, ein wichtiges trying out diverse roles in actions ln Peter Campus' early video Arbeit mit dem KorPer ,SuBerem' Konstel- Thema dieser Zeit, man denke nur and performances, documenting tapes, 'replicas' of his own figure Anderen des Selbst neue an Anti-Psychiatrie mit Ronald these with the aid of photography move within the pictorial space, lationen in diesem Feld' Sie traten die geteilte video, and thus attaining a while in the later closed-circuit in meilreren Facetten in Erschei- Laings Kultschriften Das or presence pictorial installations users his works h nung, erProbten in Aktionen und Se/bst oder Knoten.a Peter Cam- symbolic as the of pus possibility i- Perfarnances diverse Rollen, hatte ein Studium der Psycho- signs indicating the of are able to observe their own die mit Hilfe von Fotografie bezie- logie absolviert, bevor er sich der change. Just as "it is language multiple, changing manifestations hungs'oiei se Video dokumentiert Kunst zuwandte. which speaks", the medium with on the monitors. For the viewer, wurden und damit eine symboli- ln den frtlhen Videotapes von its semiotic characteristics was this encounter between self and sche Prasenz erlangten als bild- Peter Campus bewegen sich employed in the service of an the image of his body leads to rf liche Zeichen ftlr die Moglichkeit ,Replikanten' seiner Figur im artistic message - for example a an aesthetic experience, and at he der Verenderung. Wie jetzt ,,die Bildraum, in den spiteren Closed- live camera with "real-time projec- the same time he is able to ) Sprache sprechen" sollte, so wur- Circuit-lnstallationen sind es solche tion" onto a screen. observe this from the outside with- lter de auch das Medium in seinen der Benutzerinnen und Benutzer Using their own bodies as a in the context of the artwork; in S; semiotischen Eigenschaften seiner Werke, die auf den Bild- motif distanced from the media, this way, Campus always facili- F gezielt zur kunstlerischen Aussage schirmen ihr wechselndes Erschei- artists of Peter Campus' genera- tates both forms of reception, the genutzt, etwa die Live-Kamera nungsbild beobachten konnen. tion explored new possibilities pragmatic form of usage and the F mit,,Real-Time-Projektion" auf dem ln der Begegnung ihres Selbst mit of the human image: besides symbolic form of contemplation. ry- Bildschirm. dem Bild ihres K6rpers machen Campus himself, these included Mit dem [insatz des eigenen Kor- sie eine isthetische Erfahrung Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, The Self and the Body te pers als einem medial distanzier- und kdnnen diese im Rahmen des Jochen Gerz, Dan Graham, Joan ; ten Motiv haben Ktlnstlerinnen und Kunstwerks zugleich von auBen Jonas, Anselm Kiefer, JUrgen By contrast to the early mod- ge Krinstler' der Generation von Peter betrachten; Campus ermoglicht Klauke, Bruce Nauman, Giulio ernism of the 20th century, when it- Campus neue Moglichkeiten des auf diese Weise stets beide Paolini, Ulrike Rosenbach, Cindy artists described, even celebrated k Menschenbildes erkundet, neben Rezeptionsformen, die pragma- Sherman, Katharina Sieverding, the uncertainty of an individual's trs ihm arbeiteten Vito Acconci, tische der Benutzung und die sym- Bill Viola, Hannah Wilke and many identity, for example Luigi Piran- illl Josepi': Beuys, Jochen Gerz, Dan bolische der Betrachtung. others. dello's Ane, None, and a Hundred tual Graham, Joan Jonas, Anselm Kie- The thesis of the Death of the Thousand (1,926), Fernando Pes- l- fer, J*rgen Klauke, Bruce Nauman, Das Selbst und der Ktirper Author was reflected in their soa's Heteronyms, in fine art Giulio d Paolini, Ulrike Rosenbach, works, but above all it was Umberto Boccioni's Io Noi Boc- Cindi, rfl- Sherman, Katharina Siever- lm Unterschied zur fruhen Moder- revised: in place of genius, the cioni (1907-1910) or its para- ding, Biil Viola, Hannah Wilke und ne des 20.
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