Radio Solaris


Creative designed media installation This media-architectural installation constitutes a space composed of ten multi-faceted projections linked sideways in a spiral form. The installation basically consists of a camera travel through the empty spaces of the radio station. It is a continuous shot, which is divided into 8 screens. On each screen another room can be discovered. The films are screened in a unit of 8 alternating twin projections. That means Fischer / el Sani filmed the traveling through the radio station twice. One time just the abandoned spaces and the second time with slight interventions inspired by Tarkovsky's film "Solaris". The objects that appear in Tarkovskyﾕs film "Solaris" and the motifs from Gerhard Richter's paintings are quoted into fascinating and elegant moving images mixed with the space from the social realism. They show practical reality, but at the same time, work as a fictitious factory producing realness obtained through memories. The documents and memory-added documents begin simultaneously, and as they get entangled, they start to regenerate subtle differences. Sound-design for the insstallation is created by Robert Lippok, Berlin In addition, Nina Fischer / Maroan el Sani especially produced for the YCAM exhibition a new video double projection for their project "Radio Solaris", in which the viewers can compare the scenes of the metropolitan highway ride in the vicinity of Akasaka in Tokyo filmed by Andrej Tarkovsky around in 1970 that appear in ﾒSolarisﾓ and those in current Tokyo filmed from the same angle in the same size. ＊This work was first displayed in Leipzig, Germany. The contents have been substantially revised during the artist-in-residence program at YCAM, with the latest version including travel shots in Japan. ＊ The title "Kelvin" shows the absolute temperature standard, and it also comes from the name of physicist Dr. Kelvin who gets on board the satellite probe in the first Solaris investigation in the film "Solaris" directed by Tarkovsky. "-273,15｡C=0 Kelvin" means the absolute zero indicated by centigrade -273,15｡C, i.e. the environment that humans are unable to experience. At the same time, the investigation of an unknown celestial body Solaris described in Tarkovskyﾕs film ﾒSolarisﾓ parallels reflectively the investigation of human existence, and so is a metaphor for a situation in which humans are confronted with the limits that are physically impossible for us to reach. About the building that appears in the works Palast der Republik

Creative designed media installation

This media-architectural installation constitutes a space composed of ten multi-faceted projections linked sideways in a spiral form. The installation basically consists of a camera travel through the empty spaces of the radio station. It is a continuous shot, which is divided into 8 screens. On each screen another room can be discovered. The films are screened in a unit of 8 alternating twin projections. That means Fischer / el Sani filmed the traveling through the radio station twice. One time just the abandoned spaces and the second time with slight interventions inspired by Tarkovsky's film "Solaris". The objects that appear in Tarkovskyﾕs film "Solaris" and the motifs from Gerhard Richter's paintings are quoted into fascinating and elegant moving images mixed with the space from the social realism. They show practical reality, but at the same time, work as a fictitious factory producing realness obtained through memories. The documents and memory-added documents begin simultaneously, and as they get entangled, they start to regenerate subtle differences.
Sound-design for the insstallation is created by Robert Lippok, Berlin

In addition, Nina Fischer / Maroan el Sani especially produced for the YCAM exhibition a new video double projection for their project "Radio Solaris", in which the viewers can compare the scenes of the metropolitan highway ride in the vicinity of Akasaka in Tokyo filmed by Andrej Tarkovsky around in 1970 that appear in ﾒSolarisﾓ and those in current Tokyo filmed from the same angle in the same size.

＊This work was first displayed in Leipzig, Germany. The contents have been substantially revised during the artist-in-residence program at YCAM, with the latest version including travel shots in Japan.
＊ The title "Kelvin" shows the absolute temperature standard, and it also comes from the name of physicist Dr. Kelvin who gets on board the satellite probe in the first Solaris investigation in the film "Solaris" directed by Tarkovsky. "-273,15｡C=0 Kelvin" means the absolute zero indicated by centigrade -273,15｡C, i.e. the environment that humans are unable to experience. At the same time, the investigation of an unknown celestial body Solaris described in Tarkovskyﾕs film ﾒSolarisﾓ parallels reflectively the investigation of human existence, and so is a metaphor for a situation in which humans are confronted with the limits that are physically impossible for us to reach.

About the building that appears in the works
Palast der Republik

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