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UNSTABLE 2015

2015

UNSTABLE 2015

Exhibition view
2015

Fettered prosperity

2015

Laughing friend comes out on top

2015

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UNSTABLE 2015

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2015

It’s really only about starting over again when you think you’re done.

The installation uses the typical boxes used for transporting assorted staple foods. In the depths of emptiness, the eye sees bare ground. On top of that is the unstable humming of captive prosperity, of borrowed prosperity. Unstable 2015. The chain clanks and rattles. How should it go on?

Background

In the beginning, Unstable created God. He immediately divided the sea from the land, the back from the front, the ass from the mouth – and from the worm that was created, we all separated. That wasn’t everything. There was always a lot going on between yes and no. Unstable is the constant effort to distinguish. The glass half full, the table half empty. Between yes and no, parsley grows. In former times, less – back then we finished our training once. In the past, everything was ready at some point. Hand-Axe 4.0 didn’t exist. Life lasts longer today, but the possibilities are over just as quickly. He who hugs an oven coming in from the cold will experience pain. Full stop. If nothing has changed, this only happens more often. Know your limits.

Between yes and no, a fraction of hesitation stretches itself out. Hesitation is the dancing pole around which the tempting aspects turn, offering themselves and firing the lust for everything – even for the possible! And, with a bit of luck, things won’t work again! Between yes and no, we hear the commands of our dubious friend Unstable.

‘These are the holes in causality. It is the missing transition from cause to effect. In these spots, the entire universe gapes open.’
(J. Vogl interview on Moby Dick)

Where signals meet, the content is amplified or erased. When two say the same thing, the third doesn’t understand. (Best keep your hat flat.) But precisely where nothing works, something happens. Anyone can make sense. Someone who doesn’t listen nevertheless hears. Hears something else. A new sense emerges – not a concession but an answer. Has nothing to do. Is as free as the question. The iceberg is not the answer to the Titanic and yet applies to it, since calm seas hid it in the night. In the dead spot of good news, reception is unstable.

→ It’s really only about starting over again when you think you’re done.


Detail of the lettering

2015

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Label for book lighter

2015
Glass half full, table half empty

Pisa survey

2015

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