PRESENCE OF ABSENCE
Art at 16 square meters
Even if there is such a thing as ‘reality’, it is always subject to change.
It is our own imagination that constantly regenerates and recycles our reality. In our work we do the same. Parts of our installations keep returning to be reused in a new context.
This work all started 10 years ago with a cart in a street theatre act.
A man in the audience was fascinated by this image. Last year, in the prospect of his decease, he remembered the cart and with his last will the first version of this sculpture was born. During his funeral ceremony the cart transformed. Out of the idea that someone who has passed away is kept alive in the minds of those who stay behind, it became a vehicle that transports ones thinking.
In the latest version of the cart, there is nothing but the thoughts of the audience that form the load of the cart. The cart is being pulled by your inner world, reality, and let you experience yourself while doing so.
By adding the slow running turntables, we invite the audience to take part in the artwork, by standing on them. This addition invites the audience to experience their own load/reality through our work.
What keeps us busy during this process:
The deadline, the final countdown, the hight of attention, for example after someone has passed away. Why is it then? Why not now?
The awareness of life through death. The role that art plays in all this. How one lives on in the minds of others after dying and how this shows. The role of absence in the presence of an artwork and the effect on the audience. The cooperative role of the audience in creating our artwork.
Everything that concerns us is part of the work of art.
Is it the cart that is the art? Or is art the load we experience?
Do these thoughts connect to the crisis the world is in and can 16 square meters contribute to change life into an artwork?
2025-02-25
Duo work#art
This installation consists of a 3-dimensional collage of a vehicle, placed on 3 electrically powered conveyor belts.
The collage contains various types of bells, which, once in motion, produce a soft ringing sound.
Around this arrangement, 4 to 6 display turntables are spread out on the floor, on which the public can stand to connect with the artwork.
The whole will be connected to a motion detector that sets the work in motion as soon as the public comes closer, so the audience will see the vehicle running on the spot.
The cart on the conveyor belts measures 4 meters in length, 1.5 meters in width and 2.10 meters in height. Including the turntables, the required floor space is 4 x 3.5 meters.
The electricity consumption does not exceed 10 Amps. A slow fuse of 16 A and 230 Volt connection is sufficient for this work.
