Site-specific video installation and performance
Two x 10-metre-wide LED video screens
Duration: 12 hours
Vor Frue Kirke (Church of Our Lady), Aarhus, Denmark
27 Aug – 9 Sep 2023
Commissioned by Vor Frue Kirke for Aarhus Festival
In collaboration with composer Lil Lacy
Metamorf is an audiovisual clockwork that, like the ringing of church bells, marks the passage of time, as a meditation on deep geological time, the brick and the human.
The work is a paraphrase of the church’s characteristic coat of arms frieze, and consists of two 10-metre-wide LED video screens. The video follows a similar structure throughout the day: from a concrete documentary track, where we follow the day-to-day operations of a company that cleans and recycles used bricks, breaking down into an abstract, painterly track, and finally into a graphic track, showing very basic elements from architecture and construction—a horizon line, a house.
