<Experimentation in arts as a way to see the world anew>
We’re nowadays looking back on a long tradition of experimental (media) art, starting with experimental photography and experimental film. Also the combination of media art with painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and performance has a long and rich history. Can we still “invent” innovative experimental settings, new transmedia forms and combinations?We think yes, even though all new formal approaches are – and should be – created in dialogue with art history.
For this approach, we would like to present examples from our current work: one focus among others is trying to overcome the conventional central perspective representation by cameras. We also experiment with the surfaces and backdrops for screening videos and presenting photos in the exhibition space and in public space. Such as a 2-channel-video projected on rivers so that the water becomes the moving screen. Also, we can show experimental approaches in public art.
Nevertheless, in some projects we do not use formal experiments at all – namely in those cases where it does not match the content of the work. Because we think that experiment in transmedia art should not be a self-target, nor should it follow art market trends or serve as a “unique selling point”.
Instead, experimentation in arts can be an attempt to generally see the world in new ways, in order to vision fundamental change – which is so deeply necessary – with artistic means.
——By Time gates
Time Gates(Ben G.Fodor & Dorothee Frank)
The artist duo Time Gates (Ben G. Fodor & Dorothee Frank) has been creating cross-media projects since 2015. Such as video-audio-installations, novel performance formats incorporating installation elements, photography, collage / bricolage, literary texts (including their own), live drawing and painting, and original sound by composers and improvisers. Part of their works can be presented both in public space and in art spaces. Time Gates is based in Vienna / Austria. Both artists also work individually.
Ben Gyula Fodor, born in Dorog, Hungary; he has lived and worked mainly in Vienna and has been present in the art world since 2000. Fodor uses the media of photography, installation, dra- wing, and performance in multiple ways and combinations; solo and since 2015 also in the artist duo Time Gates. Fodor‘s work describes an arc from artistic research on past and present utopias and dystopias (cycle Incipit Vita Nova) to the exploration of future utopian spaces (series Carmine, Horizon).
Dorothee Frank, born in Vienna / Austria. After studies of piano, musicology and art history she has first had a carrer as a radio artist, radio documentarist and culture program anchorwoman at the national radio arts and culture channel Österreich 1 of Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, and public radios in Germany and Switzerland. Parallel to this, she has developed her artistic practice alongside Ben G. Fodor which resulted in the founding of the artist duo Time Gates.
Research on Green
The light at the end of the tunnel is a different color, 2022, Vienna
River Face Cinema – Life is Liquid, 2024, Düsseldorf
Science Fiction, 2019, Budapest
