Edward Luyken

The visual artist Luyken in his studio (in New York), in a stop-motion film in which he creates ephemeral works of art on a white wall, using paint, wood, string, and similar items. The image is always framed in the same way, and the soundtrack is looped.

Against the background of a white wall, Luyken films two performances. The images are interspersed with one another: a man and a woman are painted with white paint, while another couple is wrapped in paper and coloured with paint. The second part of the film also consists of a performance. This time, Luyken works with life-sized, cartoon-like fantasy figures. Eventually they are numbered and wrapped in white paper.

Performance by Edward Luyken in his Paris home. Luyken wears overalls like those worn by German tank soldiers. First he plays with a kind of amulet, then he makes small objects by stacking and sliding together clumps of various sizes. This activity is intermittently interrupted when Luyken has to rewind the spring of his camera every twenty seconds.