Pash Buzari

With SPACEISTHEPLACE at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Pash Buzari is presenting the first part in a trilogy of exhibitions to be continued at other venues. The cineaste’s environment consists of photographic and architectural components combined to create a constellation then shown as a counterpoint to an installation employing light. The exhibition is based on Buzari’s continued investigation into imaginary portrayals of light, space and consciousness in various science fiction films, and adapts material from films including Alien, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Solaris and THX. In the process, the exhibition’s main concern is to examine how film surfaces suggest space and light effects point to hidden, cryptic spheres.
Buzari’s project not only directs its sights towards the canon of science fiction entertainment. Its title already points beyond Hollywood, quoting a film by the jazz philosopher Sun Ra, whose fantastic ideas and notions of space are a part of the exhibition, like experimental string theories of physics and their attempts to explain the world: “Both models share the assumption – and that is precisely what interests me – that in a subtle way, sound/noise/ tone, as an immaterially and at the same time virtually repeated effect, offer a kind of matrix for these psychedelic – in the best sense of the word – fantasies explaining the world.” (Pash Buzari)