Director / Producer: Marietta Auras
Camera: Kevin Klein
Editor: Nicola Powell
Text: Dr. Inke Arns
Voice Over: Jessica Edwards
Music: Nik Nowak / Frank Zerban
Sound Mix: Adam Asnan
Production Assistant: Svenja Schäfer

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Panorama speaks most clearly to the themes of a disconnected experience in nature. A single-channel video of 37 minutes, the work examines tourists entering and passing through the recognizable wildlife of the Pacific North-West of America’s national parks. We see the walkways working to keep the tourist from their emersion in awe-inspiring nature, yet automatically and almost as if a requirement, the tourists add another partition by placing a screen between themselves and their enviroment. As such they have inadvertently reduced a 360 degree vantage point to no-more-than a 10 centimetre wide LCD display.

NV Regional shows a non-edited longtime observation of tourists at the Hoover Dam in Nevada. The scenery leaves an almost extraterrestrial impression: Serpentines cut through the vast land of the Black Canyon creating geometrical formations. Visitors walk slowly along these pathways and move as if directed by an invisible force. An ethereal sound he developed by reworking recordings of the electrical current generated by the dam’s power plants accompanies their progress.

NV Regional shows a non-edited longtime observation of tourists at the Hoover Dam in Nevada. The scenery leaves an almost extraterrestrial impression: Serpentines cut through the vast land of the Black Canyon creating geometrical formations. Visitors walk slowly along these pathways and move as if directed by an invisible force. An ethereal sound he developed by reworking recordings of the electrical current generated by the dam’s power plants accompanies their progress.

Life on earth is unrecognizable as compared with October 2019, when coronavirus had yet to mutate into its current form, and the American artist Colin Snapp first visited Rome. In 2019, it was possible, among other things, for a crowd to form at the Trevi Fountain and for an observer to snake through it unnoticed, which Snapp did, 30 minutes after arriving in the city, filming tourists with his iPhone while wandering in search of the Coliseum…— excerpt of Text by Eviana Hartman