Escort/Travel companion:
The suitcase is the life buoy in the surf of the modern travel community. Their needs on a large scale are summarized there in a space-saving and usually rectangular way: Storage, charging station, means of transport, mobile office, sleeping and washing facilities. Is the suitcase just an optimized piece of luggage or can it also serve the desires of circumnavigators, adventurers, deep-sea divers or cosmonauts?
Sun! My life awakens in the warmth of your light. I love you
with all my heart and i need you so much! Deep sadness,
fear, anxiety and cold weigh on me. My universe, the
celestial body, the starlet, the star flew in the dark night and
in cold space in search of a fixed star. Your light shines on
my path and helps me get going, past the rubble. It is so
wonderful bright where you are!
Antonia Christl
The term “Punctum Saliens”, or Salient Point, can be traced back to a description of the development of an egg in Aristotle’s anatomical treatises. He refers to a bloody point „στιγμὴ αἱματίνη stigmē haimatinē“, which jumps „πηδᾷ pēda“ a pulsating red dot which appears in the fertilised chicken egg about three days after incubation. As the embryonic heart and its physiological function become observable, it is the first sign of life visible to the naked eye. In Aristotle’s description, the salient point is the criterion which determines if something is alive.
About Antonia Christl’s “Salient Point/Punctum Saliens”
At first glance, it is hard to tell whether the distant rotating light with which Salient Point opens will serve as a point of orientation or deception. We’re lost, in what we come to recognise, is a city at night whose pulsating lights seem to point to the black sky. Suddenly, there is the sound of wet, rotating skateboard wheels carrying the shaky camera. Over the intense baseline of Antonia Christl’s electronically composed soundtrack, the crackling friction between asphalt and wheels, between the body and the hand holding the camera has a warm and soothing effect. The skateboard serves as a tool to make sense of urban space. The deserted cityscape feels somewhat alienating, the absence of humans eerie, especially after what looks like New Year’s Eve. Is this a new beginning or an end? We are left with the debris of everyday life in which the camera lens keeps looking for something particular yet unknown. Unknown to the camera, to us.
by anorak that is Lukas Ludwig, Johanna Markert and Florian Model