The artist couple Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke will be presenting their audio/visual installation „a priori tempo„ on the 12th of May 2011 at 7pm in the White Cube room of the MeetFactory. The installation is an examination of time.
„The fascinating thing about time is that it is simultaneously a personal and subjective measuring unit although it is a neutral and objective sequence matter. Depending on which perspective one chooses to treat time with, it results in either being dominant and restrictive or impressionable and susceptible. Our modern lives are usually dominated by its strict rule. How to escape this dogma on which industrialism formed our contemporary life style “Time is Money” and to find out and examine the ambiguity of this threatening pressure was our incentive. We want to free ourselves and give time a new shape and rhythm.“
During their artistic residency at MeetFactory, Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke have built a tower in which time is presented in a subjective, personalized form with a new measuring rhythm in spite of accepting measuring units and mathematical precision.
The artist couple Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke will be residing at the Meetfactory from February to May 2011. They will present themselves, along with many of their friends, with a wide array of multi—genre spectacles during their artistic stay. A multimedia artist with American roots, Danielle de Picciotto is known, among other things, as the founder of the famous Berlin Love Parade and the Space Cowboys band singer. Alexander Hacke is the bass guitarist of the legendary Einstürzende Neubauten, but he also devotes his time to many solo projects and film-compositions.
