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Paul Pfeiffer<\/p>\n
“Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” “The Long Count (Rumble in the Jungle),” “John 3:16,” etc.<\/p>\n
(2001 – ongoing)<\/p>\n
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“There\u2019s definitely a thrill. There are certain images…scenes that I feel captured by. There\u2019s something special about the spectacle of seeing a human being at the center of the gaze of thousands of people. To me, it\u2019s thrilling and also terrifying. There\u2019s something very compelling about it to me. I feel empathy for the players on the court, and admiration when somebody\u2019s able to shoot a three-point shot amidst all the hoopla.”<\/p>\n
“In the video \u2018John 3:16\u2019…a reference to a passage so often quoted that its sort of the Biblical code for the New Testament that gives you the formula for salvation and eternal life. There\u2019s an interesting kind of resonance that I see between this idea of a formula for salvation and eternal life and the promise of digital media that never break down and literally can live forever…that can always be copied endlessly. In a way, the medium itself represents a kind of promise that almost has spiritual overtones.”<\/p>\n
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“What I\u2019m really interested in is where the medium fails, so that what you are seeing is the point at which the erasure can\u2019t happen seamlessly. If the editing was done perfectly, then you wouldn\u2019t see where the figure was at all, but in \u2018The Long Count\u2019 triptych you always do. There\u2019s always this trace of where the figure was, and in a way you\u2019re seeing the failure of my hand and the failure of the medium, and that\u2019s kind of the ghost that\u2019s left. And it\u2019s that point of failure that I\u2019m really interested in.”<\/p>\n
– Paul Pfeiffer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n