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Livre d'images sans images
En lys sommers usigelige smerte
Suppose a Room
Penelope sleeps
It could be that the saddest thing
     is not knowing that one is sad
Music For Lectures/ Every word
     was once an animal
oslo
I can’t quite place it
We to be
No Title
Black
Time has fallen asleep in
     the afternoon sunshine
every now and then
or else nobody will know
Opening
Time will show (detail)
Private collection
 
OTHER MEDIA
Titled
Faits divers
coffee & cigarette
Sketches
Artist in Residence
The way/ you move
Light Shade Shade
Stills
 
ARTIST'S BOOKS
The Appendixes #1–4
Livre d’images sans images (LP)
one continuous line or a thought
     that dissolves into the distance
Not Not Nothing
Time has fallen asleep in
     the afternoon sunshine
Afternoon Editions
Objects 2002 - 2015
We to be
Black
every now and then
Opening
Time will show (detail)
 
PUBLISHING HOUSE
Varamo Press
Time has fallen asleep in
     the afternoon sunshine
 


Titled (2021)

picture picture
photo: Mette Edvardsen

A poem, a fragment, a sentence, perhaps a title in itself. Seven words are printed on posters and placed in light boxes hanging next to each other along a wall. Seven words, seven light boxes. The words appear and disappear as the light boxes are switched on and off, proposing different combinations of words and time. Time passes what else can it do – these words, but not in this particular order. The words in the light boxes are not ordered like the words in this sentence.

In the light boxes, the reading of this sentence will emerge in time, and along with it many more. This process creates a text that runs for about half an hour, and then repeats. And the text is by no means an exhaustive display of the possible combinations of the words, but rather an attempt to write and unwrite the sentence again and again. Fragments, beginnings or endings of phrases, single words, there and gone, words in different orders or in other combinations. The rewriting of a sentence, expanding and contracting, built up and taken apart through time. People, words, time, passing.


Piece commissioned by Performance Passage. Space for Poetics of the In-between. A project by Tanzquartier Vienna. Curated by Andrea Maurer.
Presented at Performance Passage at Museums Quartier (Vienna) 24 June - end November 2021

Performance Passage. Space for Poetics of the In-between is designed after the artistic concept of Christoph Meier. The display concept is conceived and curated by Andrea Maurer.
Performance Passage presents two different visual compositions per year. Each exhibition is accompanied by a publication available at the vending machine.