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terms: | Instead of a rigid, unchanging form, visitors are invited to try their hand at shaping the works anew. |
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Tales of P.P. | ![]() somewhere between “raw, telluric matter” and the “finished, human object” that enabled the forms thus obtained to be translated into elastic materials. (5) |
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Worm Complex | |||||||
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Hallucigenia | |||||||
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Green Gel | |||||||
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Deadly Night Shade | |||||||
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Handmates | |||||||
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Alien Substance | |||||||
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Concoctions | |||||||
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Other works by Walde use the simplest
of means to raise biological questions. This is brought home by Walde’s 1997 Worm Complex. The flour scattered on the floor about a centimetre deep in a circular shape may well remind us of the material experiments which in the 1960s led to the study of variable forms arising more or less autonomously as a result of the material’s characteristics. Amorphous substances like earth and also flour were used at that time for all sorts of experiments of form, such as in the works by Barry Le Va (6) and Bruce Nauman’s Flour Arrangements documented in photographs. For these works, Nauman spent a month rearranging the same material in new shapes on the floor of his studio, photographing the results. (7) However, the worms placed in the flour by Walde demonstrate a shift of interest since the experiments in the 1960s. Rather than concentrating on the informal trails of the creatures wriggling about in the flour, which was also fingered by curious visitors and moved about with their shoes before being turned over again by the worms every night, the work took on the appearance of an experiment being conducted in a science laboratory. This impression was partly due to a round, greenish spotlight shining onto the flour, suggesting that something was about to hatch – an idea reinforced by the association of the illuminated circle on the expanse of white flour with a fried egg. As well as revealing the behaviour of the worms, the indoor biotope also bred the notion that the flour was being consumed by the worms and hence transformed into growing populations of mealworms, demonstrating a fundamental and apparently also |
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