Ute Schleicher
Still from Grandiose Mechanical Ballet - video installation
“-and suddenly I caught sight of the equipment: the regulator globes, their eyes closed, oblivious, were twirling round; the cranks were glistening and bending to the left and right; the balance beam was proudly heaving its shoulders; the bit of the router was squatting athletically to the beat of the unheard music.
I suddenly saw the whole beauty of this grandiose mechanical ballet, flooded with the light of the lovely blue-eyed sun. But why – my thoughts continued – why beautiful? Why is the dance beautiful? Answer: because it is nonfree movement, because all the fundamental significance of the dance lies precisely in its aesthetic subjection, its ideal nonfreedom.”
(Yevgeny Zamyatin)
still from Holiday on Ice
Video
Still from Grandiose Mechanical Ballet
Video installation