Dellbrügge & de Moll
«Video Theory I-IV»

The ‘Video Theory' series is composed of four parts, each taking a visually different approach to the closed production circuit of artworks and discourse, and using media theory as a resource for artistic production. The discourse production is supplemented by an additional ‘remix' and an ‘interview'.
The Dellbrüge/de Moll team, which has been working with materials including video since 1989, pursues in its productions a resolutely conceptual, media-theory-based approach often implemented with a generous portion of irony. In the course of the 1990s the two artists have turned increasingly to work in public spaces, and the artistic deployment of the Internet.

Video-Theorie I
(Video Theory I)
F, 1992, 2', videotape

Part I of the ‘Video Theory' series operates with animated sign language, meaning that Beate Ermacora's text is comprehensible only to the initiated.

 

Rudolf Frieling