texture. crocheted text, wool. c. 140 x40 cm.
dialogue. crocheted story and story about evolution. Ines Seidel..
outside, inside. self portrait with crocheted text.
throne. digital photography with chair and crocheted story.
texture
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edge of the story
at the edge of the story. concrete, book pages, wire.
At the edge of the story, where something new is about to begin.
outermost edge of the story. concrete, book pages, wire.
at the edge of the story. concrete, book pages, wire.
soap bubbles
no title. photography with foam on story.
no title. photography with foam on story.
white foam.
YOU ARE HERE
YOU ARE HERE (beginning in the letter A).
Dante’s Divine Comedy, wax, paint, glass beads, nylon thread.
The “Divine Comedy” is a detailed map of Heaven and Hell, supplemented with Dante’s travel notes. I have added some place marks.
The impact
How to explan the impact. Concrete,wire, polymer clay and other material. ca. 20 cm in diameter, 28 cm tall.
(Actually this is only about the first few seconds of the impact. Of a book, a story, a word, a gesture.)
YOU ARE HERE
In every word I recognize you
in the words that I know I am with you
in the words that I don’t know or that have not been invented yet, we wait for each other.
In my old English dictionary there are many words between hyphen – Bindestrich and immortal – unsterblich: hypnotize, hypocrite, hypothesis, I, idealism, idiot, ignorant, immaterial, immense. To spell just a few. You are everywhere. And me too, how else would I know these words. Sometimes it is very obvious, sometimes not at all. I have used more than 100 pins to localize us. Of course, more than 100 is not enough. Of course, one dictionary cannot be enough.
pocket dictionary English – German, pins with polymer clay. 22 x 15 x 4 cm. If you are interested in a poster, let me know. Find more pictures hereand here.
no language
“This is it: I have no language for reality. … how could one prove who one is in reality? I can’t. Do I even know myself who I am? This is the frightening experience of this period of remand: I have no language for my reality.” A passage from Max Frisch’s novel “I am not Stiller” (in my own translation). I have replaced the preceding pages with a concrete block.
Language is like cement, a story can be like concrete. Maybe that is so, because such a shape of story touches us deeply. It transmits an experience across the limits of the pronounceable.
growing on
once the promises are covered with moss
soon grass grows all over this story,
later there will be dandelion, clover,
a flock of sheep and
who knows what else will grow
where words were planted *
The book out of which a story grows and greens will be part of a new installation that I am working on. The hand sewn net with paper circles will get longer still and it will climb up the wall.
*the poem in the German original is slightly different in meaning
gaps have been filled
the weight of a story
depends on
the obsession
to fill the gaps
with solid arguments
– – -working hypothesis of a text linguist
Out of the constitution
I have changed the constitution of the GDR. I cut out all the dead and abstract words. Only few words still had life inside, sometimes just one or two words per page would still speak. I gave them hold with a red thread.
Now the text is in an almost transparent constitution, even the bondage of the thoughts within is exposed. The roots of the new text continue to be visible on the backside of the remaining words.
Here is the poem of the amended constitution. Every line represents a page.
(rough translation).
/CHAPTER 1, Political Foundation/
in town and country clasped in the lower part
the freedom of another people
The natural resources, the mines, power stations, dams and large waters, the natural wealth of the continental shelf are fundamental
air of home
values as a matter of physical culture
/SECTION II, Citizens and Communities in the Society/
every [she] every [he]
man and woman
freed
secret
present invulnerability
the church of their mother tongue
/CHAPTER 3, The Unions and their Rights/
They take part in the revolution
/CHAPTERL 4, The Production Cooperatives and their Rights/
voluntary
/CHAPTER 1, The People’s Chamber/
actualizes evolution
for the duration of worry
fact of presence
on the 60th day on the 45th day on the 15th day
/CHAPTER 2, The State Council/
after the reelection
writes questions
/CHAPTER 3,The Council of Ministers/
It issues names
for collective cognition
/SECTION IV, Legality and Administration of Justice/
Life directly
independent – bound
being listened to
the decision to turn
The constitution changed
in power.
Before I altered the complete constitution I had ripped out some pages and changed them separately. You can see them here and here. The words that I had cut out became the base of my suggestions for an organically shaped constitution, like the one below. 