JOAS NEBE

 

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GIVE MY REGARDS TO THE ALPS
10 channel video installation

The project's issue is about how perception is influenced by global image prototypes reproduced in different medias, e.g. postcards or tv.

Usually postcards show a bright lightened sujet, the image of a place, anchored in the mind of everyone which has nothing to do with the true environment of mountain nature. Especially mountainscapes of distinction are very often reproduced.

Another important aspect is how climate change impacts on the Alps landscape. Glaciers are melting, less snow precipitation is observed and leisure activities like skying and snow boarding will find less acceptable conditions. Today the environment of the high mountain range is more and more shaped in order to meet human needs. More and more regions in ancient time unaccessible are now at hand for car drivers, mountain bikers, hikers etc. And with this change comes pollution of different kind, e.g. air pollution, sound pollution, smoke pollution.

The footage for this video collage has been taken at Simplon pass, Black Forest sites and Jura mountain Chasseral in western Switzerland.


The current video installation composes a landscape panorama by screenings on up to ten screens at the same time. Some of the mountainscapes are unchanged, others show a different composition of Mountains and valleys every 30 seconds. The mountain“s panorama changes from late summer impressions of indian summer trees to snowy hills and white peaks.





Give My Regards To The Alps, 10 channel video, 2012-13, channel 5 + 6, 24sec excerpt





Give My Regards To The Alps, 10 channel video, 2012-13, channel 1 + 2, 32sec excerpt



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Give My Regards To The Alps, 10 channel video, 2012-13, channel 3 + 4, 24sec excerpt




shown at:
2017, JOAS NEBE: VIDEO WORKS ON NATURE, 16:9 Gallery, UTLC Gallery, Michigan, USA
2016, CAVO FEST, Trani, Italy


subject as well featuring publication:
2016, Interview with Joas Nebe on his OPERA serial conducted by curators JOSH RYDER and BARBARA SCOTT, ARTiculAction Contemporary Art Review, anniversary edition, may 2016, link