Thorsten Knaub

Tieing a cushion around a tree with gaffer tape...
(resulting 36 images)

Tieing a cushion around a tree with gaffer tape...
(single print)

Tieing a cushion around a tree with gaffer tape...
(single print)

Tieing a cushion around a tree with gaffer tape...
(extract of video)

Tieing a cushion around a tree with gaffer tape and after activating the delayed shutter release throwing the camera towards the tree with the aim to take a picture of the moment just before the camera hits the cushion (2001)
36 colour prints, video monitor;
DVD PAL, 17:57 min, loop play
Mini-DV Master

The work deals with the nature of image making and the merging of exercise, game, ritual and artistic process.

"I remember wondering whether as an artist I ever do anything but imitate an imaginary memory, and asking myself what could happen when somebody in the future came across only the remnants of the photographic prints or a title of these works: would they try to rediscover the skills of the fictional lost tradition to which these remnants refer?"