Limerick, Ireland
Karin Ludmann, Ham, 2004, video installation, 1 minute 48 seconds loop

Karin Ludmann

Germany

In my work, several media, such as sculpture, video and installation, are used to explore the traces of everyday life and to examine the cultural reasons for everyday actions and behavioural patterns. Separated from their proper conventional function, objects of daily use change into strange mutants, which imitate vegetables sprouting and rotting in a very rudimentary, mechanical way. These mechanical constructions lose their initial designation and seem to escape from their workaday routine to become apparently autonomous beings following their own inclinations.

My work is primarily the result of various technical and conceptional experiments treating the displacement of functions and materials of everyday occurrences which are taken out of their context. The machine-objects are research dispositions, comments and disclosures of a paradoxical world, which refer to their functioning along accurate pre-constructed patterns of behaviour. Some special functions become the starting point of irrational and absurd actions and proceedings, which manipulate the usual perception of an object and its function.

(Text: OPEN e v + a catalogue, 2005)

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