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| "Day for Night, Christiania" (1996) |
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Koester's main media are video and photography. As he is "interested in 'how' to portray,"* his works seek a place somewhere between documentary and dramatization. For example, his video work "Pit Music (1996)," presented in Documenta X, recorded the small event of a quartet concert and a family who came to see it. Each moment, however, was portrayed as something irretrievable.
Koester often refers to Jean-Luc Godard. Particularly, his work, "Weekend," is a simulation of a description in Godard's same-titled film. It was shot in a self-governing section in Copenhagen, called Christiania. |
| This location was again chosen in his photographic/video work, "Day for Night," in 1996. He used a blue filter, which was the technique introduced in the movie "Day for Night" by François Truffaut, to narrate the history of Christiania, the most squalid section and the center of social controversy in Denmark. |
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| "Day for Night, Christiania" (1996) |
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| *From siski XII. Interview by Catsou Roberts. |
Joachim Koester (at Y-1: 9/94)
http://www.y-1.com/art/past/content/1994/joachim994.html |
