The companion audio piece, poster and DVD is released in a
edition of 100 copies
Signed and numbered by the artist
Published by JRP|Ringier Kunstverlag, Zürich 2011
32 x 32 cm, english
LP - 45 rpm
A companion audio piece to Armin Linke's film Alpi
Composed by Oreledigneur
Sounds from the Archivio Alpi Research
DVD - 60min
A film by Armin Linke
based on a research project of Piero Zanini, Renato Rinaldo and Armin Linke
Alpi is the result of seven years of research on contemporary perceptions of the landscape of the Alps, juxtaposing places and situations across all eight bordering nations and spanning the territories of four languages. In the film, the Alps are encountered like an island that is connected to various global transformations. We undertook many journeys in the alpine region, which, ironically, led us as far as Dubai. The film shows the Alps as a key location, owing to its delicacy and environmental importance, where one can observe and study the complexity of social, economic, and political relationships. In the Europe of today, the Alps are a hotbed for modernity and its illusions. (Armin Linke, 2010)
Going to the Alps? Thinking of trekking outdoors? Dreaming of skiing in Switzerland? Watch Armin Linke′s film first. Beware. You will always be inside, deep inside laboratories, factories, ski resorts, or Swiss bunkers hidden in the mountains. Armin Linke has succeeded in doing with film what he has been doing for years with photography: situate the envelopes inside which our existence unfolds. This is the most uncritical film ever made about the utter artificiality of the modern world. But "uncritical" has to be taken just as positively as "artificial." (Bruno Latour, 2011)