Dialog partner

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Installation: ‘Dialog-Partner’, Clay and text, Various dimensions, Overall dimensions 200 X 200 cm, Nov. 2018.

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“When a body "encounters" another body, or an idea another idea, it happens that the two relations sometimes combine to form a more powerful whole, and sometimes one decomposes the other, destroying the cohesion of its parts”

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This quote by Spinoza Benédictus, sums up the most central points of my piece ‘dialog partner’. The notion that all bodies affect each other – the result of interaction can make the bodies grow or decompose. ‘Bodies’ defined as not only a person, but also as ideas, the weather or sounds.
 The piece ‘Dialog-Partner’ is a chain of affects. It is therefore in constant movement, because different elements interact and change each other.
The physical body of the piece consists of white clay that I laid out around a three. I asked another person to help read aloud the prose text, while I placed the clay. The performative act was carried out doing 2 weeks. The piece was physically transformed by the changing weather, the public and through ‘the helpers’ level of participation in creating a dialog about the piece. The piece can create reflection on whether the effect of other bodies is destroying or developing.

 

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