A video installation, transmitting into the public space from the glass front of a museum. You see infrared recordings of ants, filmed on their seemingly useless everyday journey through their self-constructed conurbation. They become a metaphoric structure, oscillating between organic crowd, technically produced picture, and urban character. The human traffic in the public space multiplies this impression. Realized at the Folkwang Museum in Essen.
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Coworkers: Thermographic recordings of ants: Anton Stabentheiner & Helmut Kovac in a terrible heat at the sports grounds of Kumberg near Graz, in Summer 2003 (Many thanks to the ants, too!)
Effects and video production: Henning Maier-Jantzen & Scopium (Agentur für Bildmedien/Essen)