Woman walking down the side of a screen

In 1970, Trisha Brown made an impassable space passable with Man Walking Down the Side of a Building. A dancer, secured by climbing harnesses, walks down a seventy-storey building in New York in an upright position. Without exceeding physical limits, the effect of gravity is visually suspended. Something familiar is placed in an unfamiliar setting. The viewer’s view of the city’s architecture and the bodies moving within it is reversed, exceeding the parameters of familiar perception.

In 2020, half a century after the premiere of Man Walking Down the Side of a Building, I ask myself about the way we view bodies in virtual space, their effect on our perception and the forces that prevail there.
(Inge Gappmaier on 18 April 2020)

Video, 1:22 min.

Published on 18. April 2020

Idea and Realisation
Inge Gappmaier

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