| Sleepers |
| Art vidéo | dv | color | 13'40'' | Germany / United Kingdom | 2006 |
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© Johanna Domke
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“Sleepers” takes place at Stansted Airport in London in the very late night and portrays sleeping people with slowly panning camera moves. The slow takes emphasise with the passenger’s tiresome waiting for an early morning flight. Within this physical location Domke grips a real, temporal situation that shows the airport as a form of standstill. The video follows a sequence of sleeping people in a transit situation. But even if they are in transit they undergo a present standstill that deludes oneself into a void, where one is not quite sure how the situation will progress. With the interest of this kind of void Johanna Domke evolves her artistic praxis within the time-based media of film and the photographic still image, which on a conceptual level can be seen as a distortion of time and movement. A hybridisation, that opens up for other relations and references.
Johanna Domke was born in 1978 in Kiel. After studying Fine Arts at the Muthesius Academy for Art and Design in Kiel, Domke went on to study at Malmö Art Academy, Sweden and the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen, where she received her MA in 2006. In 2003 Domke received the Audience Prize at the ZKM International Media Art Award for her work Let the wind blow, as well as the Brookmann Prize from Stadtgalerie Kiel. In 2004 Johanna Domke was awarded the Edstranska Stiftelsen’s Grant for Students in Sweden. Since then, her work has been shown in major institutions in Europe and elsewhere, including the Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg; Göteborg Konstmuseum, Gothenburg; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg and Bonner Kunstmuseum, Bonn. Furthermore, her works have been screened at film festivals such as European Media Art Festival 2003/2008 Osnabrück; Locarno Film festival 2006, Locarno; Oberhausen Film Festival 2007, Oberhausen and Rencontres Internationales 2005/2007, Berlin and Paris. Domke lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin.
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