Oliver Kahn is a 55 minute video which is decidedly a piece about Leeds United, Johan Cruyff and Bayern Munich, but done through a lens more inspired by Samuel Beckett than Franz Beckenbauer. In fact, the piece can be viewed as a misbegotten adaptation of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, with old soccer matches replacing the collected audio diaries of the character. We witness the way the protagonist thinks his life through these soccer matches, Hollywood movies and « personal » rêverie.
The DVD is inserted in a book designed by the artist.
The book and the DVD are slipped in a case and accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate by the artist.
For two weeks, Hans Schabus fimed (day and night) his installation at the Secession in 2003 without moving the camera, the artist then accelerated the film so the lenght now is 10 minutes and 44 seconds.
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