"FORGETTING ELVIS / BLUE ELVIS"

Ausschnitt aus einem Artikel vom 29 August 2007 der australischen Zeitung "THE AGE" von Penny Webb über die Eröffnung der Ausstellung "living Elvis" in der RMIT Gallery in Melburne.

............ Düsseldorf artist musician Kaiser gets it right with Forgetting Elvis/Blue Elvis (49 mins), a two-screen video projection of a recent performance in which the artist's cello is heard in strange harmonies with snatches of Elvis singing Blue Moon (Rodgers and Hart, 1934). The two screens slowly zoom in on the full-length Flaming Star figure, with the musician silhouetted in the foreground, until the image dissolves in magnified film grain and digital patterns. It's an astonishingly beautiful mediation on a lyrical song, on a figure lost to time, and on what we project onto that figure. In its different colour registers and shifts in framing, the image is never less than haunting. The mood of the soundtrack is elegiac, but the experience of staying with this 49-minute DVD is completely uplifting. Kaiser, born in Germany in 1967, "gets" Elvis like no one else here.