Wolfgang Koelbl / Group VIII, Apr 99 - Sept 99

SOME THINGS TO BE SEEN OR TAKING PLACE NOT NECESSARILY RELATED TO EACH OTHER

9/22/99 to

MAK Center at the Mackey Apartments, 1137 - 1141 South Cochran Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

With his video projection piece "Supernatural (I Never Close)," architect Wolfgang Koelbl (in collaboration with Michael Wildmann) attempted to create a state of permanency for human beings. Inspired by a restaurant sign that reads "we never close," Koelbl eliminated the biological aspects of life to propose a permanent--hence supernatural--existence. Koelbl shot images of himself standing in front of a wall bathed in natural light to document his life span each minute throughout one 24-hour day. The sequence of 1440 frames were accelerated to 12 minutes and the entire clip was looped, which left no visible beginning or end. The video was projected onto the facade of the Mackey Apartments, visible to drivers and passers-by, exposing the permanent, supernatural existence to urban surroundings.