WOODPECKER CARD
a performative sound artwork
The
Woodpecker Card is a hybrid between Concrete Poetry and Musique
concrete, in which both art forms interact in the mind of the viewer as
it is performed. On the one hand, the work is read as poetry and on the
other hand it is performed like a piece of music. The card is therefore
both a medium to read a poem as well as to read music from. Reading the
text, the viewer will inevitably imagine a woodpecker somewhere out of
sight in a morass; by taking the small twig that comes with the card and
gliding it across the textured edge of the card, the reader will
inevitably hear the woodpecker in morass. Combining both in the
imagination and while holding the twig in the hand, viewers may come to
realize that they are the actually the woodpecker in the morass who
feels very wonderful.
CIRCLE CARD
a work of poesie concrete for a circle
Conceptually, the work explores the circle as in its diverse roles: As a peephole, as a three dimensional object, and as a movement. In its essence, the Circle Card is a work of poesie concrete, which is “recited” through set of actions given on the back of the card: “Take the lens in your right hand and the card in your left; place the lens behind the card and look through the hole with your right eye. To experience the work, slowly make a 360 degree rotation at the point where you are standing.” The effect is wondrous of rotating around the room is wondrous and refreshing, because it turns the room into a colorful work of panoramic art.
CIRCLE CARD
a work of poesie concrete for a circle
Conceptually, the work explores the circle as in its diverse roles: As a peephole, as a three dimensional object, and as a movement. In its essence, the Circle Card is a work of poesie concrete, which is “recited” through set of actions given on the back of the card: “Take the lens in your right hand and the card in your left; place the lens behind the card and look through the hole with your right eye. To experience the work, slowly make a 360 degree rotation at the point where you are standing.” The effect is wondrous of rotating around the room is wondrous and refreshing, because it turns the room into a colorful work of panoramic art.
a love story that makes as much sense as it doesn't
There
are two parts to the work, one that almost makes sense and one that
almost does not makes sense. Reading it demonstrate in words that the
things we imagine are as important as those we do not have to because
they exist in the outer world and not the inner one. Both parts make up a
short story about imaginary and real gardens and how they bloom. The
story is printed on brown papers and is accompanied with a series of
images created by the American artists Leonard Bullock, which invite
the reader to take opportunity to make imagined gardens discovered
while reading real. There are two characters, a town, and a two gardens
in the story. The story follows a map of thoughts sketched upon memory
and acted upon by the imagination like and as light as the shadows on
sidewalks cast as one walks with one’s back to the sun. The story, as
stories go, is carried out in the imaginary gardens of a women waiting
for love to knock on the door, and who waiting to gain the courage to
do so, builds real gardens to guide him to finally do so. So the plot
takes place in a garden that is real and one that is imagined, where
plants have leaves like lips and flowers staring onward outward,
yearning but content for the things that have not yet come. The title
is accident, because in the Bible begins and ends with a garden as a
place cultivated with wonderment.
a book to be performed while reading like a volcano singing an aria
This
is a book that needs to be read like a piece of music is played. The
reader is therefore becomes a „performer“ and the method in which they
read the book is therefore their performer’s „interpretation“ of the
work. The instructions provided in the preface read like the performing
instructions of graphic score and at the same time instructions for well
being. They teach the performer to always regard the “now”, to always
remain calm and silent, let each turn page be felt as an affecting
movement of the body and to see the changes in colour of the pages as
changes in light. The book contains words and images of and about the
wonder of volcanoes, active and dormant. For those who actually perform
the work, it becomes self evident to them through the experience that
we are the landscapes we live in and that there is an emotional tie
between us ad the earth that is at every moment there, when we are
asleep or when we are awake, when the weather changes or when it does
not, when earthquakes shake us, or when volcanoes find eruption, or lie
sleeping for centuries.
SPACE ART POSTER GALLERY
a fold out gallery for a mixed reality exhibition
