Deceleration of Time
2 October 2012
The actress and artist Susanna Kraus manged to bring the world’s largest walk-in camera back to life. The imago 1:1 was developed by her father, a high-speed photography researcher at Daimler-Benz in the 1970s (hard to catch fast rides with slow shutters). But soon the imago’s true worth became known as a portrait camera, able to produce life-sized self portraits. Because of the way it is built, the device is also a mirror, literally forcing one to examine their own persona. This interactive perspective is something which facinates Bazon Brock, a self-proclaimed "thinker on duty" and "artist without artwork.” Brock is a professor of aesthetics, cultural mediation, and art theory. As a representative of the fluxus movement, Brock cares less about the materiality of art than the ideas behind it. In 2011, he opened the Denkerei, or “Thinkery” in Berlin, a place where one can walk in and ask a question. The purpose of such a place is to learn how to handle the principal unsolvability of certain problems, and how that might actually lead to better answers.
Learn more about the imago HERE and the Denkerei HERE.
Editorial Lead by Romy Uebel / Production, Camera, and Photos by Anna Pilz & Annikki Heinemann / Music by C. Love
