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Æther
Æther - an exhibition project by Christoph Keller Espace315, Centre Pompidou 16.2.-7.3.2011
Verbal/ Nonverbal
In der Video-Installation Verbal/ Nonverbal, 2010 inhalieren Probanden in einer quasi-wissenschaftlichen Versuchsreihe alleine oder zu zweit ein halluzinogenes Gas und berichten von ihren Erfahrungen.
besuch eines imaginären museums unter hypnose
für eine abendveranstaltung an der Schirn in Frankfurt wird ein profes- sioneller hypnotiseur engagiert. freiwillige aus dem publikum begeben sich unter hypnose auf eine reise durch ihr eigenes imaginäres museum und sprechen in trance darüber, was sie
Interpreters
Installation about simultaneous interpretation and the locus of language itself. The situation is inversed: The viewer sits inside of the cabin and looks and listens via headphones at the simultaneous interpreters that translate their own speech.
Hypnosis-Film Project
Compilation of a hypnosis session from the artist’s archive of sequences of hypnosis in film history
Visiting a Contemporary Art Museum under Hypnosis
Documentation of the artist being hypnotized, wandering around in an immaginary art museum and describing what he sees there.
Inverse Observatories
Christoph Keller makes use of the observatory contrary to its true function: it is not the universe that is observed, rather the observation itself.
The Whole Earth
The video installation The Whole Earth (2006/2007) plays with images of idylls and threats.
cloudbuster - project
Reenactment of the scientific experiments of Wilhelm Reich from 1953-54 to influence the atmosphere by the means of Orgone-energy
chemtrails
The grids of the Chemtrails 1-3 series (2007) assembles, archive-like and uncommented, the formations of airplane contrails in the sky.
expedition-bus and shaman-travel
Project researching the parallels between ethnography and shamanism using scientific film-footage from the 50s and 60s
encyclopaedia cinematographica
Project based on the international scientific filmarchive of all movements Encyclopaedia Cinematographica
tunnel+lightbox
For his first gallery-solo-exhibition at Schipper-Krome, the artist built a tunnel, so the actual exhibition-space was no longer accessible. The work deals with the definition of the artspace and the condition of objects and people therein.
helioflex
sun-mirrors following the sun automatically. long term project to bypass the social gradiant of access to sunlight in urban habitations.
Divining Rod Testfield (Scheunenversuch)
Installation based on a scientific experiment of the German government to evaluate the results of water diviners (Scheunenversuch, 1988/89)
Rundum-Photography
The camera records movements, movements of the apparatus, or moving objects in front of the camera lens.
Deux Cieux
research/ documentation of a shamanistic ritual in bretagne