Dirk Koy: Raum, 13.04.2021
Raum, 13.04.2021
Dirk Koy creates surprising audio-visual works in which the viewer's perception is often challenged. His work Raum is a moving, 360°, digital and analogue drawing, created during the lockdown. During this time in which movement options were severely limited, nearby natural space, digital space, and one's imagination offered the opportunity to leave home to experience other places.
In this work, a space is created that leads users to the intersection
between reality and virtuality. Sound and movement create an immersive
experience in an environment that feels moving and organic, but in its
form can only exist in digital space. Raum could be experienced online on HEK's Vimeo page as well as on our social media from 13.04.2021 to 11.05.2021.
Statement by the artist: "Pencil drawing, photography, digital texture and movement merge into one big whole. Everything seems to be set in motion. The viewer becomes part of the action and decides which point of view he/she wants to take. The individual media layers begin to correspond with each other and allow the viewer to dive into an uncontrolled, porous world. Below and above dissolve, individual image layers break open, seemingly subterranean things come to the surface: unpredictable, erratic, with long pauses, then continuous again. The familiar becomes strange, the strange becomes familiar."
Dirk Koy is a Swiss artist and lecturer at HGK FHNW Basel for time-based media. Originally trained as a graphic designer, Koy works primarily with audio-visual media. In his award-winning works, he experiments with everyday images and environments, using both analogue and digital techniques.