CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI WORKS MULT...
Christian Jankowski works multimedial in the very sense of the word: he works with installation, video, photography, performance and literature. By combining different mediums or putting them in relation, the borders between fiction and reality are nearly abolished. At the same time also the border between private and public are often merged.For the duration of the exhibition My life as a dove a professional magician transformed Jankowski into a dove. Until his re-transformation the artist had no private life. The confusion is finally culminating when an intimate chat-dialogue between Jankowski and his girlfriend is transformed into a physical set up where it is spoken by actors; this play is recorded on a video and is shown as a logical consequence in the internet again. The title of this work speaks for itself: Let's get physical/digital. The digital becomes physical to become digital again.
With the work Telemistica, Jankowski plunges into the medial world of the Italian local TV. Speaking live on telephone with several TV-fortunetellers he asks questions about his forthcoming artwork. The TV sequences are recorded and are Jankowski's later artwork. Here the mystic not only lays in the private prophecy but gains significance within the work as it prophecies itself.