Werkschau: de Geetere/Wagner
Werkschau: de Geetere/Wagner
In 1979 Patrick de Geetere and Michel Meyer found the company “WonderProducts". They organize two major events in 1983: “Tecnopop in Wonder land", an installation at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, and "Wonder Show Back Again " at the Théâtre de la Bastille. In this show 15 synchronized video recorders are linked to the actors' movements. In the early Eighties "Wonder Products" also gain recognition with their commercials, notably the “O'Kitch" series. In 1983 the Ministry of Education and the Arts sponsor Patrick de Geetere's work in the U.S. This way the collaboration with Catherine Maes starts. They translate ten poems from New York's Lower East Side into video clips. The result, called “New Facts about Cement", starts out as a first person account of a young man moving into a hotel room. It turns into a montage of elements of fiction and purely musical images that partly overlap. The same boundary between poetry and narration is explored in "Clouds of Glory", a report and odyssey through the South of the U.S. from 1984. In 1985 Pafrick de Geetere and Catherine Maes realize a minimalist fiction entitled "Fugitive in Black-and-White". In it, the boundaries between present and future, realistic impressions and surfacing memories of a young man (the victim of an accident) mix and become inseparably fused. Two works are completed in the early Nineties: “Les Contaminations" (Fly Me to a Star, 1992) and "En Pire "(1993), a collaboration of Patrick de Geetere and Cathy Wagner. In these works the relationship between fiction and reality materializes in a unique narrative form. “ En Pire; Les Contaminations; Par d’autres mains manipulé (Europe Feed-Back Day Dream); De doute et de grâce; Clouds of Glory