Eran Schaerf, Scenario Data #39, 2005, installation view. Photo Bob Goedewaagen
Scenario Data #392005 By projecting moving slides of various reenactments and other mediated performances across the exhibition space, turning two-dimensional representations into three-dimensional experience, Eran Schaerf mimics the reenactor?s emphasis on experience and immersion while also maintaining a sense of distance. Scenario Data #39 (2005) is based on a kind of sci-fi script about a missing futurologist of the ?Kubrick Company? who was last seen in an eighteen-century salon ? a reference to the end of Kubrick?s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Schaerf combines a Kubrick still and a photograph of the eighteenth-century room donated by Baron de Rothschild to the Israel Museum ? in order to make sure that if thee futurologist returns, it will be in Israel, so Schaerf?s text has it - with a 1974 photograph of a campfire with Louis Quinze chairs at the end of the Yom Kippur War. Around this core, he assembles images of Napoleonic reenactments as well as of a top-secret Israeli unit whose members disguise themselves as Palestinians.
Biography
Eran Schaerf
(Tel Aviv, Israel, 1962)
Eran Schaerf lives in Berlin and Brussels.
Eran Schaerf is a German artist of Israeli origin. He attracted international attention through his participation in the Documenta 9 in Kassel and Aperto in Venice in 1993. His work develops in the intervals between installation, radio-play and film. His publications include Folding Public Plans (1994), Re-enactment (1996), Listener's Voice (1999) and Gedachtnis zu zweit. For the Performance of Europe (with Eva Meyer, 2000), and Blue Key, Journal for Demographic Design (2002).
