Hu Xiang | Video

When is then ? | Dolores Flores | 2005 | DVD  16:38 min | signiert limitiert |
When is then  ? A multimedia installation : one poem, one song, one video, ten text reliefs made in wood

Is it a question of time? Or some thoughts on your mind ?
A poetic, psychological journey through personal space. The musical soundscape invites the viewer to enter a contemplative atmosphere, creating a dialogue with these fundamental questions. In the video the main focus is the observation of the sky, where the cloudes are filmed in time-lapse, changing and moving in a slow tempo, the words of the  poem are integrated in a flowing form. The theme is the transiency of time where emotions and thoughts are the subject matter.The text is spoken, whisperd and sung in both langues English and German. The music for the video was composed with recordings of one voice and an electric guitar, sounds sampeled, compiled, composed and produced into a soundtrack with Marius D. Kettler, together known as ARTKustik.


When is then ? Wann ist irgendwann?
Today, heute, yesterday, yesterday, someday?
Tomorrow, today, yesterday, someday?
365 days slip and slide, slip and slide.
Go with the flow, es geht vorbei,
you do what you have to do, and you do it , do it!
Some things take time, some things need time,
and quite often it requires a lifetime, ein leben lang,
a lifetime!
Reality has many faces, faces you don`t always recognize, faces you don`t always recognize, faces you don`t always recognize.
Nothing stays the same, decisions can`t wait, decisions can`t wait!
Passion a vision, schmerz, schmerz, and a little pain.
Living in here and now, living in here and now, wherever that is, jetzt, wherever that is.
Gestern, heute, jetzt.
Yesterday isn`t today, today isn`t tomorrow, and this could be then.