Von  am 01. Februar 2005 um 00:00


Espace expérimental > nouvelle proposition à partir du 21 janvier d'Astrid S. Klein

Le Plateau / FRAC Ile de France
Angle de la rue des alouettes et de la rue carducci 75019 Paris
Tel : 01 53 19 84 10
Mél : info[at]fracidf-leplateau.com
Web : http://www.fracidf-leplateau.com

Metro : Jourdain (11) ou Buttes-Chaumont (7bis)
Bus : ligne 26 - arrêt Jourdain


Astrid S. Klein
21 janvier – 20 février 2005
(nocturne jusqu’à 21h00 le 21 janvier)



At le Plateau Astrid S. Klein will show some of her videos in a informativ situation. The selection is a set up of references connected to her actually started research project. This project deals with the construction of the sound background in our media sourrounding. Klein ist interested in exploring the different inputs in contemporary Background Sounds, the subtle interpretaion "how world sounds" and their standardization as it is made through sound archives and daily repetition.

In the set up situation further there will be meetings with guests who are invited to take part in the research and develope certain aspects of the project together.


In her videos and installations Astrid S. Klein plays with the movie goers' and TV watchers' well-trained and complex memory of genre conventions. She deals with the rich and diverse fund of role constructions and narrative patterns offered in motion pictures and TV-series as well as computer games. In her work fragments of dialogue and sounds from motion pictures are mixed with her own recordings forming a new soundtrack. Klein reverses the ordinary use of synchronization techniques in feature films. Rather than adjusting sound to fit the film material, in her work images are adjusted to fit the pre-recorded soundtrack, thus image is synchronized live with sound. In the short and reduced video episodes Klein herself plays one or several roles. With a voice not her own she addresses the viewer, turning her or him into a co-player, into the other. In a performative way she dissolves and transforms standardized constructions of identity in using herself as material, as a surface.


Astrid S. Klein is currently on residence at la Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
After graduating

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