Dust, the foe of all computer manufacturers and cleaners, the annoying accompaniment to everyday life, the final stage of our existence – Ottmar Hörl, Rainer Römer and Dietmar Wiesner, three different artist identities, play with the numerous possibilities of a visual and auditive approach to apparently unspectacular material. Videos, texts and audio tapes are combined in an experimental arrangement into a physically accessible spatial installation and extended to include live performance elements. Dust associations become a multi-media concert.

On the screen: various processes by which dust arises or is eliminated, such as the development of dust during stonemason's and blasting work, the accumulation of dust on sound pick-up systems or the smashing of china plates against a freshly plastered wall. With a camera, for example, the action of washing hands is observed or the classic "dust destroyer" water is followed on inland waterways in France flowing into the Atlantic.

Hörl, Römer und Wiesner develop a sound component for dust by determining and "adding" texts and noises in the context of dust, both from tapes and live. In the midst of their installation the artists appear as stage actors and perform composed and improvised musical pieces. Ottmar Hörl performs live with voice, table viola and whip, Rainer Römer plays percussion, table guitar and synthesizer, Dietmar Wiesner flute.

Ottmar Hörl
artist; various awards; numerous individual exhibitions and works in the public domain; professor of fine arts in Nürnberg; lives in Frankfurt/M. and Wertheim

Rainer Römer
composer, percussionist; studied music; has played in various jazz and rock bands; various awards with the Würzburg Percussion Quartet; member of the Ensemble Modern; lives in Frankfurt/M.

Dietmar Wiesner
composer, flautist; studied music; soloist at, among others, the Salzburg Festspiele and the Hamburg State Opera; curator of Ars Electronica/Linz; various compositions; member of the Ensemble Modern and the composers' group HCD; lives in Frankfurt/M.

hr/intermedium 2 2002