Founded in 2001 and based in London, Zeitguised is a lateral studio for moving images of the American Jamie Raap and German Henrik Mauler.

'Peripetics' examines contemporary art practice by use of ubiquitous 3D computer graphics. The title and description are part of that mimicry: 'Peripetics or The installation of an irreversible axis on a dynamic timeline'. Simulating a gallery within the art work, Peripetics is a piece in six acts that each entail an imagination of disoriented systems that take a catastrophic turn, including the evolution of educational plant-body-machine models and liquid building materials.' The language illustrates an all encompassing visual art market outside of which no art seems to be able to exist. The market itself is entirely dependent on medial representation and the accelerated image circulation therein. 'Peripetics' pushes this acceleration to a point where both gallery and artwork are rendered obsolete: The idea of the art work, the concept itself, folds congruently with its most important asset, the transportable digital image. This collapse results in an unstable, oscillating hybrid that circumvents the dictum of galleries, art critics... (read more)