We can see some artists as 'seekers' whose works depict the different faces that the world shows to them in the course of their quests. The world view of this type of seeker consists of a continuously replenished series of images which establish a relationship between the world as it is, and the world as it is experienced. It is the pursuit of the meaning of the world from the point of view of the artist, and the meaning of art from the perspective of life. What is life about? It is not just about a general, rational, universally valid world existing in empty time. Will, intention, power, sensuality, taste, instinct and desire are just as much a part of its definition. We encounter this line of thought in the philosophy of Nietzsche, for example, and it is Büsching's guideline in his attempt to bestow form on the world of a mentally sick individual. In the (predominantly) black and white world of his images we come upon a woman, we see fragments of vaults and images derived either from the processing of other images, or created from the thoughts of this wanderer with the aid of his computer. One moment we are being seduced by dancing planes and sung texts by William Blake with a cello accompaniment, only to find ourselves the next moment in a graphic world where our attention is pulled towards a vanishing point, with crackling synthetic sounds, and now and then a glimpse of the images' original source. Seeing and not seeing: because of their transience and their manipulation the images are divested of original content and their concreteness vanishes into the abstractions of a world of thought. They announce themselves with great violence and attempt to bear us off with them on their quest, which takes us through a landscape of black and white surfaces on which familiar images surface briefly, only to vanish the next instant. Images, portraits, manipulated images are bonded into a unity here: there is no world as it truly exists, only the world as it appears and which is now offered as such to our observation.
– Carla Hoekendijk |
Camera: Ralph Mendle, Börries Müller-Büsching
Sound: Andreas Wodraschke
Börries Müller-Büsching, 1968, Berlin
Lives and works in Berlin
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