SUPERSTRUCTURE

Superstructure explores the ideas that inform the inquiries and procedures of the Amsterdam-based collaborative Hoegen and Stikker. Philippine Hoegen works with video and photography, searching for points of contact between the mediums. Using different layers of information to construct meaning within the work, her video installations show small or slow-moving events, almost to the point of becoming stills, while photographic works are combined with sound or set in motion through slide sequences. Carolien Stikker applies mistakes and limits in photo and film techniques and procedures. She explores the boundaries of a medium, raising the question of how we perceive and what we see, through a series of photographs. In the collaboration these approaches are applied, mixed, and rearranged. The work of Hoegen and Stikker consists of combinations of film and photography: video films which are shot through a photo camera (photographic video), and films resulting in a series of stills (film print). The book includes an essay, “Space is the Place,” by Thomas Zummer.