Felix Burger
FILTER: DESTRUCTIVE FORCES AT WORK
People who live in complete isolation create their own universe. They envision a world based on their immediate environment, their store of knowledge and their imagination. Prison is just such a place where people live in isolation, unable to shift their focus to an outside world. At this site and specially for Hacking Habitat, Felix Burger made the installation Weisser Zwerg (White Dwarf), the name for a star at the end of its lifecycle. He creates his own universe in an enclosed space with the available materials at hand. A light bulb becomes a star, a transport case a black hole, glass splinters become stardust. Burger sets himself at the center of this universe, as a researcher, teacher, astronaut and omniscient story teller.
New artwork at Hacking habitat
Weisser Zwerg (conference)
multimedia installation 2016
Courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
Felix Burger (Germany, Munich)
Felix Burger makes space-filling installations, often a staged chaos in which video and sculpture play a major role. He became known with the work Shell Shock Syndrome at the Open Days of the RijksAcademie in 2014.
A second part of the project is on show in the exhibition Close Up, Museum Eye, Amsterdam, 31.1 – 22.5.2016
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