VisualContainerTV presents Philipp Geist - Monography — an overview of live performances, multimedia installations, festivals … :: July 30 - September 15, 2009.

A self-taught artist based in Berlin since 1999, Philipp Geist (VIDEOGEIST) works internationally through the media of video, performance, photography, and painting. In 2008, he projected his video installation Time Fades across the Piazzetta open space of the Kulturforum in Berlin. In 2007, he screened his video installation Time Lines on the facade of the museum for contemporary art Palazzo delle Esposizioni in the center of Rome. His projects are characterized by a complex integration of space, sound, and moving images. Time plays an important conceptual role in his work, in which this apparently fixed and constant variable is repeatedly subjected to variations.

Music and sound are central elements of Philipp Geist’s work. He enters into a dialogue with music in many of his creations, and this influences the speed, the intensity of the effects, the degree of abstraction, the colorfulness, and also the content of his images. In the course of this process, visual configurations can emerge that do not necessarily accompany the music, but instead challenge it. The moving image is not given a subordinate role to the music, rather, the two media enjoy equal status. In this way, Geist seeks to overcome the dependency of image on music frequently found in the genre of concert and club visuals.

Selected Videos:

TIME LINES Facade Video Installation
7-8 September 2007 (ReOpening/ Notte Bianca)
Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Roma/ Italia) (2007)

TIME FADES Video Installation
26 Jan 2008
Kulturforum / Piazzetta (Berlin/ Germany) (2008)

MAPPING FESTIVAL
Video Installation 15 May 2009
Geneva Palais Eynard, Parc des Bastions (2009)

ELECTRONIC CHURCH
Philipp Geist + Fabrizio Nocci
Live Audio/ Visual Set
Berlin 2008

SONIC VISIONS
15 Hertz
The Beginning of Time
Audiovisual Performance
Solu aka Mia Makela (Finnland) Visuals,
Philipp Geist (Berlin) Visuals,
Fried Dahn - Sound,
Thomas Maos - Sound,

CAMP FESTIVAL 2007
Wurttembergischer Kunstverein
Audiovisual Performance

RIVERINE ZONES 2006 - 2009
Water video installation
ongoing site-specific installation project

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