THE PAPER TEACHES ME II., 2007
a paper Installation, 2000/2007
LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD, 2005
Conceptual art should not be the art of forms and material but, rather, the art of ideas and meaning. Ideas, however, are immaterial forms, and forms are also ideas that have found their own material form. Here I would like to say some words on material. The world is material, technology is digital; the world is old, technology is up to date. The world is not only very unstable, flexible, fluid, unbalanced, virtual, multi-directional and so on, but also direct, physical and material; it is also where it stops, where it is motionless, where it stands still, where it is STOP and not GO.
Matter. Material is of the world, there is continuity between the world and materials. Material, matter passes through the hand, by the hand, from the hand. But also from the body, the mouth, the head, the shovel, the concrete mixer, the foundry furnace, and also from the spoon, the refrigerator. It seems that in this very narrow space one could still fight out the impression of uniqueness and unrepeatability. Form as an event.
(2005)
MALE AND FEMALE BODY PARTS, 1998
The body is the first world; experience originates in the body, and it is only made possible by the body. The body is not a closed world, but rather an open system depending on the circulation between the exterior and the interior. The boundary is blurred, interlaced, for the body is not something (internal) opposed to the external. Our inner world is turned outwards, and thus the outer world is also our inner world. Therefore, this shift does not occur merely in the gaze, but also in the body. Our experiences in the world are achieved and confirmed by their infinite and permanent confrontation, which takes place through the entire body. We are in the body and we come from the body. The embodiment is determined by birth. The body precedes the gaze; it is a kind of a huge perceptive organ with high sensitivity and accentuated sensibility. The sensation, of course, relates not only to the edge, or the limit, or the skin of the body; it is to be found in the entire body. Hence, the body is where man feels. And the body is where man is vulnerable. The body is also where there is sexual difference. Thus, the body is pleasure, pain, and enjoyment.
OPEN / CLOSED, 2003
People make the place. It is open and closed. There can be no entrance here; there is not even a wall; there can only be a thin line. The space is stubbornly occupied by numbers; what is inhabited will soon be again uninhabited, empty, vacant. A naked space. Capitalize, buy space. Set a limit and define, inhabit space. It is impossible to think of everything and of everywhere; spatial arrangements do not suit all interests, all desires, the removal of foreigners and the liberation of space. A full bank card is an excellent way to go; a bank card means passage, the best passport. But there are other emergency rooms and exits: disposal and alienation (=the bathroom), regret and drainage (=the altar), mapping and transubjectivity (=the dressing table), switching off and transference (=the movies), departure and amnesia (=the bed), the modern stage and the modern window (=the television).
"Without place and without time?"
Edge, Crying Game, Double, Encore, 2000
(THE EDGE - TEACHER, MASTER) Once upon… Once upon a time… Can such a beginning point to something “without time and without place”? Can anything be without time and without place; is this indeed possible in – this in is already a place – space, society, or living nature? Perhaps as a spoken, phonetic word, or a term? But this sounding vibration has its source or place, and it has its time, its end in time when it stops. Place and time, do they remain? The deletion is difficult, and thus there is neither a single place nor single time any more.
Skin is the large outer surface of the body, it is between the surroundings, or outside space, and the physical volume. However, skin is not a boundary or protective cover; it is actually a place of passage. A wall is a solid boundary and barrier; it is a difference, but also a place between two sides, a place of passage. And what is the edge that lies between two opposite surfaces, for example, between two walls? Technically speaking, the edge is the final, outermost part of the body, it is something between two sides, it is an aberration, or turn – it is where one side turns into another, where one surface hides, retracts, or “shifts” to a different side, or in a different direction.