XLVI Vanessa & Dominic Wood
15.09.04 25.09.04
During two months the Australian artists Vanessa and
Dominic Wood have been working on Capri XXXXVI, the
installation unites sculptural elements with paintings.
Most of all, their piece is a reflection on the character
of this intense collaboration. They understand this
as a situation in the sense of John Rajchman's drama:
a process of permanent exchange and rejecting, rethinking
and transforming.
"(...) what if (...) at no time can we ever be
quite sure what our bodies can yet do, our lives become,
the shapes they might assume, the spatial arrangements
into which they might enter - if we started from the
idea that we are singular indefinite beings, held together,
(...) by informal plans that are always departing from
the fixed geometries of our being, opening out onto
virtual futures?
(...) Then to think would always be to construct, to
build a free plan in which to move, invent concepts,
unfold a drama (...). Philosophies would become free,
impermanent constructions superimposed on one another
like strata in a city. For once the architectonic is
loosened up, the twin questions that we find in all
philosophy -how to construct a work, how to construct
a life - acquire new shapes. The constructed work becomes
less organic,
the constructed life less perfect, and the characters
in the resulting drama more flexible, without univocal,
roles working through provisional alliances, broken
and reconciled. They then start to investigate "virtualities"
unseen in the present (...) an art of necessarily temporary
inquiry into what at a given time and place we might
yet think in our thought, see or do in our visions or
actions - an exercise in building new spaces for thought
in the midst of things (...)"
from: John Rajchman, Constructions (1999)
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