Music Video

2000
Harun Farocki, Music Video, 2000. single-channel video. 20 sec; 50 sec. Courtesy of the artist. The 1st Seoul International Media Art Biennale media_city seoul 2000 city: between 0 and 1, “City Vision/Clip City”. 42 electronic billboards in Seoul. 2000

This work is a music video without sound, which shows only street signs in Berlin that are named after well-known classical composers from Bach to Wagner. The artist states: “Many video clips produced over the past decade have combined images and sound. These images limit our imagination. Neither dreams nor music can be depicted. What children see while playing also cannot be depicted. Some religions prohibit depictions of God. Only words—concepts—can name it, and text becomes a means of maintaining distance to express reverence. If we believe in the existence of music and the world of imagination, we need paradoxes that emphasize abstractness, distance, and the impossibility of depiction.”

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