MY fRONTIER Is AN ENdLEss WALL Of pOINTs (2007)

In the 19th century exploration was geographic, but in the 20th century the notion of the ‘unknown’ turned inward. The new realms to be explored were the molecule (Niels Bohr), the unconscious (Sigmund Freud), language (Gertrude Stein) or the outskirts of the mind (Henri Michaux). My Frontier is an Endless Wall of Points is a 16mm black and white film animation created from the mescaline drawings of Henri Michaux. Of all Michaux’s work, these drawings are most often described as a ‘venture into foreign territory’. They are seen as an exploration of a vast world on the borderline of words. Koester’s work is literally an attempt to animate this idea. He examines the traces of this journey in series of rapidly moving images and made a ‘psychedelic documentary’.

Joachim Koester is a conceptual artist. He works mainly in photography, video, text, and installation. Koester focuses on gaps and ambiguities in the writing and reading of history, its eccentric protagonists and its stories and myths.