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The hunger for healing remedies is great. It would be a laugh if an overdose did not have the desired effect. The result is the contemporary souper, the reduction to a creature that seeks its salvation in quantity, the addiction of an excess. Promising products are bundled into the "daily bread". The economic effect is undisputed. A feast for production.
This current problem is addressed in the sound and video work "The really very last supper". On the menu, no bread and wine, instead in the bowl, scattered pellets en masse, the profane wafers of our time.
What was originally a communal meal turns into a solitary feast without communication or awareness of the outside world. As if in a trance, the protagonist incessantly shovels stray pellets into his mouth with his hand.
In general, it is the ongoing addiction to consumption, the limitless exploitation and waste of resources that call our future into question, with all the obviously irreversible negative consequences. It is the fear of overdue innovations and cuts that could damage our own comfort zone. It is no longer about the hope and certainty of a new world that the Christian Lord's Supper suggests, but about the threat of irrevocable finality. The Savior has literally disappeared. Obviously the truly last supper.
Electronic sounds are combined and processed with the modified sounds of the action area in accordance with the image sequences.
Both the protagonist's fictitious sensory perceptions and the possible effects triggered by them are suggested by sound, whereby
The cause-and-effect relationships between the divergent sound events are transformed to varying degrees in relation to the visual levels throughout the piece.
Ralf Kempf
Born 1970 in Offenburg
Studied at the University of Freiburg (musicology, German studies)
Studied at the Freiburg University of Education (Music, German)
Private studies in conducting with Hans-Peter Blaser (Bern/Switzerland)
Since 2001 teaching and working in various artistic and musical fields
Lives and works in Schutterwald
Since 1990 collaboration in the musical and artistic field with Dietmar Kempf.
Joint exhibitions and projects in Germany, France and Switzerland.
One focus is on the combination of sound, space and object. Since 2005, he has been creating video works, installations and objects that deal with the real and unreal world in a multi-layered way and explore the boundaries of material, sound, form and space.
Dietmar Kempf
1964 born in Schutterwald
Studied at the University of Karlsruhe (musicology, art history, literature)
Studied at the Freiburg University of Education (music, art, German)
Teaches and works in various artistic and musical fields.
Lives and works in Merchweiler/Saar
The artistic field of activity mainly includes the creation of objects and object pictures, whereby the use of objects and materials of "everyday life" in mostly serial arrangement are in the foreground. Another area is video and sound installations, sometimes in conjunction with a live performance, which are created together with his brother Ralf Kempf.
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