Ayşe Erkmen
PFM-1 and others

2004

EB67

Video installation: 6 DVDs in a box designed by the artist
23 x 22.9 cm x 2.5 cm

Edition of 10 + 4 AP, signed and numbered

14.000 Euro

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Edition by Ayse Erkmen. Edition by Ayse Erkmen. 6 monitors are scattered along a gallery wall. Videos of the artist can be seen on the screens: Animated green landmines, each bouncing in a row from back to front.
Edition by Ayse Erkmen. A square, green box, embossed on the lid: PFM-1 AND OTHERS. AYSE ERKMEN. Inside the box are the DVDs in a sleeve, on which the different refills are depicted.
Edition by Ayse Erkmen. Still from one screen. Animated green landmines bounce in a row from back to front in front of a white background.
Edition by Ayse Erkmen. Still from one screen. Animated green landmines bounce in a row from back to front in front of a white background.
Edition by Ayse Erkmen. Still from one screen. Animated green landmines bounce in a row from back to front in front of a white background.
Edition by Ayse Erkmen. Still from one screen. Animated green landmines bounce in a row from back to front in front of a white background.
Edition by Ayse Erkmen. Still from one screen. Animated green landmines bounce in a row from back to front in front of a white background.
Edition by Ayse Erkmen. Still from one screen. Animated green landmines bounce in a row from back to front in front of a white background.

    PFM-1 and others is the first video installation to be realized as a limited edition. On six monitors, six lush green, differently shaped objects move, bouncing or whirring, as if they wanted to jump out of the picture, to a cheerful soundtrack reminiscent of computer games, created by the artist, from a white background with a horizon line to the front. The objects turn out to be different types of landmines, such as those used on the borders of war zones. Fascinated by their richness of form, Erkmen “defused” the deadly weapons and had them line up for an absurd parade. The work was first shown parallel to Erkmen’s sensational contribution Sculptures on the Air for Skulptur Projekte Münster 1997 in the Westfälisches Landesmuseum on six monitors lined up on the floor. In the context of René Block’s experimental preoccupation with the possibilities of multiplied art and its extension to new media such as video and sound, it is only logical to publish a video installation in a limited edition – Nam June Paik’s The Thinker (EB47), the first ever video multiple, was produced in 1976/78 in an edition of twelve. The video edition of Erkmen consists of a green box with six DVDs designed and signed by the artist.
    Text: Eva Scharrer