COLLISIONS

The general conception starts at the present stage of matters. The confrontation of man with high technology is to be found in all areas of everyday's life. The machine exerts influence upon mankind even in the most private of spheres - and he shows his reactions with his gestures, his senses, his nerves. This basic conflict is symbolized in Collisions by "chimerae", by Men-Machine-Creatures symbolizing the connections between man and machine, just as in the old mythologies the centaur of the satyr symbolize the relationship between man and animal.

Every single creature, every "chimera" is treated in a specific technical and scenical manner within the setting of the project. The patterns of the single scenes derive from the contents of pictures, for instance from paintings of the Old Netherland Masters, transfigured in theirs sense through a specific technical equipment - and even reducing them to absurdity. With the aid of metaphorical intensification a imaginary world of our post-industrial modernity is evoked and in the same time the ambivalent relations of man and technology - created as well as feared by Man - is questioned.

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