Open Borders | Martin Walde and Jens Asthoff | |||||||
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terms: | Yes, and particularly about hand movements. A lot of works Jelly Soap for instance, work through a concealed, inherent drive, a grip that changes the way the object handles. For example, the pieces of Jelly Soap melt in your hand. You have to realize that, because if you rub them like soap they simple fall to bits. This happens in a similar way in other works, like the Handmates: if you don't pick the objects up and turn them around you won't find that out. They have a solid inner section. This ovoid form with the additional mound is hidden in the coloured gel and silicone skin. I find that very consistent with the idea of a small sculpture. Most people only squeeze or press as a spontaneous handling movement. For me this work is very strongly in the Asiatic traditions, they have these hand-spheres. But we also have the rosary, and there it works serially. And now we have these health balls that you squeeze, which is actually very bad for the hand. Handmates are a hybrid cultural issue. You have to learn a new grip to perceive their form fully. |
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Der Duft der verblühenden Alpenrose | |||||||
p. 1 | |||||||
Enactments | p. 1, 2, 5, 6 | ||||||
Loosing Control | p. 1, 2, 5, 6 | ||||||
Wormcomplex | p. 2, 3, 4 | ||||||
The Invisible Line | p. 2, 4 | ||||||
The Big Perch | p. 2, 5 | ||||||
Tie or Untie | p. 2, 3, 4 | ||||||
Green Gel | p. 3 | ||||||
Shrinking Bottles / Melting Bottles | |||||||
p. 3 | |||||||
Jelly Soap | p. 3, 9 | You mean that you come across a tactile contradiction and then rethink and have to transfer the result to a physical plane, translate it into action? | |||||
Handmates | p. 3, 9 | ||||||
The Tea Set | p. 3 | Yes, my works are often intended to control actions. I find it interesting to create a structure that takes you on to something alien to you. | |||||
Fridgerose | p. 3 | ||||||
Clips of Slips | p. 6 | Works whose form does not prescribe particular solutions? | |||||
NOFF #1 | p. 7, 8 | Well, I have an idea of a thing. But the question is not: how can I realize this idea without changing the object. I go a different way, don't take my eye off the vision and equip the thing with so much openness that it can reach the goal theoretically. So it's as though I'm providing impetus, a certain energy. Only then can I see how far it will go. | |||||
NOFF #2 | p. 7, 8 | ||||||
NOFF #3 | p. 7, 8 | ||||||
NOFF #4 | p. 7, 8 | ||||||
Siamese Shadow | p. 8 | And then the recipients come into it, people who can change it as well? | |||||
Concoctions | p. 8 | Yes, they change it by shifting it towards the vision. That's the interesting thing about it: it's not me who does that. I can only put an intuitive idea about it on the table. And that has to be open enough to make it possible for an evolutionary strand to develop at all. I have made the things so that they can learn to walk. | |||||
Liquid Dispenser | p. 8 | ||||||
The text »Open Borders« by Martin Walde and Jens Asthoff appeared in the exhibition | |||||||
catalogue »Martin Walde«, Villa Arson, Nice and Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (Ed.), 2003. | |||||||
authors: | |||||||
Jens Asthoff | |||||||
Martin Walde |