Another little boxed world. Boxes represent the confines of our existence, largely but not exclusively within society. I always try to combine playfulness with profound themes, as I believe that this playfulness speaks directly to the core of our existence, to an inner child.
Visually, technological elements (ear pods, antennas, chips) are juxtaposed to the actual act of listening, and finding meaning, while strong words demand individually and as a whole our attention.
The text of this piece is composed of found material from the text that accompanied Gernot Wieland's video Turtleneck Phantasies (2022) at Kindl – Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin. The video-art piece was highly inspirational and much of this inspiration was transferred to the text describing it. I took pieces of it and made something new, opening up the dialogue.
Learn to Listen
childhood
second skin
what remains?
a kind of obsession
protective remembrance
words
texts and drawings
dance, the absurd moments
The ubiquitous presence
all the little forms
traumatic experiences
excluded
I have phantasies
and (mostly illegible)
little attention.
What stories do I tell myself
unheard, and forgotten voices
possible ways of returning to the centre
anchor
a serious shipwreck
whose stories are told
dedicated to the murmuring, the illegible, the unspeakable,
In other words
Contemporary
