Salto Mortale
- Date of creation : 1978
- Country : Germany
- Duration : 00:30:00
- Technical characteristics : Black & white, Sound, PAL
- Artist - Author : Ulrike Rosenbach
Description
"Video live action, the video was created during the performance.
The artist swings with a video camera in her hands on a trapeze swing set two meters high. She holds the camera in her hands, with the lens pointing up. The well-known press photo of a Palestinian freedom fighter hangs under the ceiling and in the camera's field of vision, with a picture of the Madonna underneath - upside down. The camera records these two images rocking back and forth. The video can be seen as a closed-circuit playback on a monitor located in the performance room."
(Source: Gerhard Glüher (ed.), Ulrike Rosenbach : Wege zur Medienkunst 1969 bis 2004, Köln, Wienand, 2005, p.222.)
- Types : video, closed circuit, video performance
Publications and Periodicals which reference the work
Gerhard Glüher (ed.), Ulrike Rosenbach : Wege zur Medienkunst 1969 bis 2004, Köln, Wienand, 2005.