CORE (2012)

Audio-visual Installation. 5 Channel Video, each with 5-channel Sound.


CORE is an expansive installation for five independent, yet interlinked groups of 3D-animated humanoid bodies, each populating an artificial void space. Without ever tiring, the discrete groups of bodies spread apart and re-gather, in quite eternal commotion. Each body manifests a discrete sound voice, all of which together create the drone-like sound-scape of the work.

While CORE is an audiovisual composition, with a dramaturgical arc over time, body movements are created generatively, in the moment, based on a computer process mimicking real world laws of physics. Within set limits, unpredictable behavior informs body motion and sound, thus the work feels organic and "alive", along a recognizable structure but never quite repeating,
without obvious beginning or end.

CORE was commissioned as part of the London 2012 Festival / the Cultural Program of the London, UK Summer Olympics 2012, for inside a historic machine hall in Ironbridge - the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.

CORE is part of Kurt Hentschläger's "re-animated" body of work, including STROM (2021), CLUSTER (2009-2012), HIVE (2011) and MATTER (2012).

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