2014
HD video, 16:9, English, 14 min
installation: flat screen, autopols, bar stools
The »The Tallest« is a shot on-site collection of the tallest buildings in the world today. The high-rises are shown as set pieces of global capitalism, visually diminishing into abstraction. The reduced images are reminding of 3D rendering. The simulated image of these buildings circulates in the media for representational and advertising purposes, becomes a substantial object and the actual spatiality becomes a mockup. The narration is undertaken by a computer voice, it describes the competition for the tallest tower at such divers places as Chicago, Dubai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Mecca, Nanjing, New York City, Seoul, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Songdo and Taipei.
