Kontakt-Verfahren, Meggie Schneider 2002
Chinatown, Meggie Schneider 2002
For the Berlinale, Park and Chinatown were merged into one installation in Kino Arsenal at the Potsdamerplatz in Berlin, to be seen there till the beginning of March 2003. You can read a review in Spiegel online here.
Park, Meggie Schneider 2003
After her media and painting art education at the AKI, Meggie Schneider studied 'Experimentelle Film- und Mediengestaltung' at the HDK in Berlin. Her work moves between the classical short film and autonomous figurative art.
Kontakt- Verfahren (2001) is an installation about conversation at the dinner table. 12 plates are all in their own world, they don't seem to be talking to each other, but they do come together at unexpected moments.
Im Reis der Zeichen (2001) has won many film prizes and is about the visual etymology of the Chinese character for 'translation'. This found footage video is striking because of its many graphical layers and because it pushes the boundaries of image manipulation.
The installation China Town (2002) shows the 'ballet' of an employee of a still very communist park sanitation service in the city of Guang Zhou (Pearl river Delta).
Carefully and ceaselessly she sprays the plants on the square in front of a station that is surrounded by huge skyscrapers that represent the new era in this free trade zone.
Park (2003) was the preview of a new installation that Schneider made for the Bernlinale, for the foyer of the Kino Arsenal, the Berlin film museum on the Potsdamer Platz. The visually overwhelmed visitors of the festival can relax in February with subtly manipulated images from the botanical gardens.
The installation Pater-Noster-Triptychon (2000) was projected onto the facade of the Mediamatic Supermarket. The continuous movement of a classical paternoster began to resemble a slot machine when images of Heaven and Hell keep returning between the office clerks in the elevator.