Peter Weibel

ARTWORK

installation art / interactive art

closed-circuit / perception / philosophy / reality / virtual reality

1994

I. (Aristotle, or the World as a Stage) (...), II. (Plato, or the World as a Cave) (...), III. (Curtain model, or the World as a Point of Intersection) (...) The world as the point of intersection therefore means that the so-called objective reality is the inner part of an outside world, the part which for the observer can only be accessible from the inside, and which he is only capable of seeing. Hence we have a new world concept, the curtain model, or the intersection model. In this non-classical world concept, the observer is not only the spectator but also the actor on the world stage. IV. (The Wall: Lascaux), (...)The spectator stands in front of the wall in reality, but virtually behind the wall. He stands simultaneously in front of and behind the wall, the stage, and the curtain. He is woven into the curtain and he draws himself into the cave drawings. (...) (P.W.)