Abstrakt
This phenomenological analysis of the video installation Mariner 9 made by the Canadian artist Kelly Richardson in 2012 will gain a basic concept of the virtual. First, it will be shown in which way the experiencing of Richardson's installation causes a break within the space-time-continuum of our worldly living.
The second step develops how the interrupting, non-mediating force of this break of our horizontal experience keeps in a permanent relationship to the counterpart force of a mediating pretension of reality so that a reciprocal relation of breaking off and continual imagining prevails. The third step explains the function of the living human body as an orienting one, and the last step fixes the concept of the virtual.