Total Refusal – Digital Disarmament (Michael Stumpf, Leonhard Müllner und Robin Klengel)
Sculpturing a Peace Monument
2018
© Total Refusal; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
- Artist / Artist group
- Total Refusal – Digital Disarmament (Michael Stumpf, Leonhard Müllner und Robin Klengel)
- Title
- Sculpturing a Peace Monument
- Year
- 2018
- Category
- Installation
- Computer-generated
- Video
- Material / Technique
- mixed media installation; sculpture, digital video (color, stereo), C-Print on photographic paper ; video game: Ubisoft, »Tom Clancy’s The Division«, 2016
- Dimensions / Duration
- dimensions variable, duration: 00:01:44 (loop)
- Collection
- ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
- Description
- »Sculpturing a Peace Monument« originates in a video game. In Ubisoft's military shooter »Tom Clancy's The Division«, a found concrete block can be altered in only one way: by shooting at it. The collective Total Refusal turns this single means of intervention into a sculptural method, working a rough cuboid out of the bullet-struck block. The video documents this process. In a second step, the digital form is precisely reproduced in physical space and thereby fixed as a permanent sculpture. At the core lies a reversal of means: the firearm, the game's instrument of destruction, becomes a sculptor's tool. In the game the form remains transient—on the next loading, the block returns to its original state. Only the physical sculpture holds the damaged state permanently. Leonhard Müllner, a member of the collective, reads the work as an anti-monument. As he sees it, it sets against the grandiose gesture of public war and peace memorials a perforated, profane object—comparable to buildings that keep their bullet holes as traces of the violence they endured. The tension between destruction and remembrance is left open.
Author
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Images
Total Refusal – Digital Disarmament (Michael Stumpf, Leonhard Müllner und Robin Klengel), »Sculpturing a Peace Monument«, 2018, Mixed media installation; sculpture, digital video (color, stereo), C-print on photographic paper, dimensions variable, duration: 00:01:44 (loop), .© Total Refusal; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Total Refusal – Digital Disarmament (Michael Stumpf, Leonhard Müllner und Robin Klengel), »Sculpturing a Peace Monument«, 2018, Mixed media installation; sculpture, digital video (color, stereo), C-print on photographic paper, dimensions variable, duration: 00:01:44 (loop), .© Total Refusal; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Total Refusal – Digital Disarmament (Michael Stumpf, Leonhard Müllner und Robin Klengel), »Sculpturing a Peace Monument«, 2018, Mixed media installation; sculpture, digital video (color, stereo), C-print on photographic paper, dimensions variable, duration: 00:01:44 (loop), .© Total Refusal; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Total Refusal – Digital Disarmament (Michael Stumpf, Leonhard Müllner und Robin Klengel), »Sculpturing a Peace Monument«, 2018, Mixed media installation; sculpture, digital video (color, stereo), C-print on photographic paper, dimensions variable, duration: 00:01:44 (loop), .© Total Refusal; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
