NIKLAS GOLDBACH GREETINGS
Video, DVD, 10:50 min, PAL, Stereo, 2003

Images, music and sounds for this video were found in the internet (2003).

 

Greetings: an utopia of peace in times of the cold war. Peaceful greetings by 55 nations of the earth to possible life forms in the universe. The video contains more than 100 different UFO movies found in the internet. The sound contains greetings in 55 languages and a speech of former UN-General-Secretary Kurt Waldheim, which was also sent into space in 1977's Voyager mission. Carl Sagan, project manager, has noted: "The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet." The video uncovers the attempt of constructing a peaceful and harmonic view on our planet as a helpless and melancholic utopia.

Niklas Goldbach

VIDEO EXCERPT

Video, DVD, 10:50 min, PAL, Stereo, 2003

INSTALLATION VIEWS

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Installation view Prima Kunst Container
Installation view with two monitors, 2 DVD, C-Print, 6 b/w copies
Prima Kunst Container, Stadtgalerie Kiel, 2003/2004
Installation view Mori Art Museum
Installation view: Mori Art Museum, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, 2004

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Video, DVD, 10:50 min, PAL, Stereo, 2003

VIDEO EXCERPT

Video, DVD, 10:50 min, PAL, Stereo, 2003

INSTALLATION VIEWS

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Installation view Prima Kunst Container
Installation view with two monitors, 2 DVD, C-Print, 6 b/w copies
Prima Kunst Container, Stadtgalerie Kiel, 2003/2004
Installation view Mori Art Museum
Installation view: Mori Art Museum, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, 2004