(c) Sophie Olivia Taleja Schmidt
Abwesen
(c) Sophie Olivia Taleja Schmidt
Abwesen, 2022
linen-rag paper, PVC, magnets, side channel blowers, frequency converter
The Abwesen* is an engagement with non-visible transformations within a process. They are transitional states that are the opposite of the visible essence of itself and are the precondition of the existence of the essence.
What form does this in-between space take? How can it be grasped and made visible?
A slimy something, only visible through the shimmering of my skin. It wants to escape through the pores of my fingertips. I grip it tighter until it slips away and I feel my own skin. It wobbles glistening on the floor, finds new loopholes and becomes one with it.
Intervening forces, a transformation, standstill, timelessness, uncontrollability and the interplay of immanence and transcendence - It begins with the change of a body/material/thought through the influence of another "substance". This substance can appear in any form of material, thought, perception or even dynamic elements. The encounter and the resulting interaction of the strongly contrasting substances is subject to a continuous inscription and results in a reshaping of a coherence.
With each impact of a micro-perception on the fibres of the paper, the surface folds and forms a closed space in which the storage of this perception takes place and as soon as the transformation is completed, the paper unfolds. A trace remains in the form of a line in which the information of the previous state adheres. This process results in an infinite totality of micro-perceptions that form a macro-perception, unbalancing it and preparing it for the following transformation.
"It is a ripple, a roar, a mist, dust dancing in the air. It is a state of death or torpor, of sleep or falling asleep of impotence, of stupor. As if the ground of each monad consisted of an infinite number of folds (inflections) which arise and pass away in all directions unceasingly, so that the spontaneity of the monad is like a sleeper tossing and turning on his bed.“ (Deleuze, Gilles: Die Falte, 2000)
* Terminology by Byung-Chul Han
Abwesen, 2022
linen-rag paper, PVC, magnets, side channel blowers, frequency converter
The Abwesen* is an engagement with non-visible transformations within a process. They are transitional states that are the opposite of the visible essence of itself and are the precondition of the existence of the essence.
What form does this in-between space take? How can it be grasped and made visible?
A slimy something, only visible through the shimmering of my skin. It wants to escape through the pores of my fingertips. I grip it tighter until it slips away and I feel my own skin. It wobbles glistening on the floor, finds new loopholes and becomes one with it.
Intervening forces, a transformation, standstill, timelessness, uncontrollability and the interplay of immanence and transcendence - It begins with the change of a body/material/thought through the influence of another "substance". This substance can appear in any form of material, thought, perception or even dynamic elements. The encounter and the resulting interaction of the strongly contrasting substances is subject to a continuous inscription and results in a reshaping of a coherence.
With each impact of a micro-perception on the fibres of the paper, the surface folds and forms a closed space in which the storage of this perception takes place and as soon as the transformation is completed, the paper unfolds. A trace remains in the form of a line in which the information of the previous state adheres. This process results in an infinite totality of micro-perceptions that form a macro-perception, unbalancing it and preparing it for the following transformation.
"It is a ripple, a roar, a mist, dust dancing in the air. It is a state of death or torpor, of sleep or falling asleep of impotence, of stupor. As if the ground of each monad consisted of an infinite number of folds (inflections) which arise and pass away in all directions unceasingly, so that the spontaneity of the monad is like a sleeper tossing and turning on his bed.“ (Deleuze, Gilles: Die Falte, 2000)
* Terminology by Byung-Chul Han
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Abwesen
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Date
June 02, 2022, 17:00h
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Students
- Sophie Olivia Taleja Schmidt (participating artist)
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