gefangen in endlosen Wiederholungen / trapped in endless repetitions
nicht ohne Grund erzähle ich Dir / not without a reason I’m telling you
den Schlag der Schmetterlingsflügel / the beat of the butterfly wings
von einer erheblichen Verwirrung ergriffen / seized by a significant confusion
The story tells about a wayward nun, Megildis, who deserts her convent with a knight...
The »Manifest« (by Lisa Kränzler & Tomaso Carnetto) is about the »Loss-Machine«. The »Loss-Machine« (body-machine, giant-typewriter, vitruvian machine etc.) is a fundamental antithesis to Heidegger's "Gestell"...
The Sandman is said to sprinkle sand or dust on or into the eyes of the child at night to bring on dreams and sleep.
Let me give you a noteworthy instance. lt can happen that violence over-reaches the bounds of the taboo in some way.
I am not the Sandman. Maybe I am the draftsman. No, I am not! Not at all. Wait a moment, I have to think about it…
The work on the "existential notation" leads us into a space between two oppositional areas
»Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.«
»You cannot avoid beauty in a work of art«, Anselm Kiefer
»Life can't be all that bad, I’d think from time to time. Whatever happens, I can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.«
Reports of the effects of consumption of mandrake are blurred vision, dilation of the pupils, dryness of the mouth, difficulty in urinating, dizziness, headache, vomiting, blushing and a rapid heart rate as well as hyperactivity and hallucinations.
“Second only to the master of us all, Clodia (1) has become the most discussed person in Rome. Versus of unbounded obscenity are scribbled about her over the walls and pavements of all the baths and urinals in Rome.”
Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March
»All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts...
What is a notation? Setting a notation means to manifest
The question of how to write down my existential notations / my text…
Someone who gets into the state of being will only be able to identify himself as a Being in the moment of immediacy...
»If you can just get your mind together
Then come on across to me
We'll hold hands an' then we'll watch the sun rise from the bottom of the sea...«
“We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination...«
“The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being
You need a perspective if you want to attain something what is making sense to you. But we cannot grasp any sense anymore...
We need to find our own “style” to produce an Existential Notation and therewith – step by step – the sum of our being; of our movements, thoughts and experiences as a structural net of recursive iterations.
The aim of our work on drawing is both creating art and with it, getting a deeper knowledge about our working on all kinds of Existential Notation which includes the knowledge about the conditions of making art and design and the use of these in our social reality.
„Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.“ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
During the last lectures we have learned that every work of art or design can be read as a “text”, that the “text” with its correlation of text/fragment and texture/volume builds an Inter-Position. As an Inter-Position of History, we describe a Inter-Position as a score which gives us advice for our actions. With this knowledge now we have to think about: What the aim of the given Inter-Position? What do we believe, in which position are we standing? What do we want to achieve and therefore what transformation has to be accomplished?
How to construct an “Inter-Position”.
In the concrete process of creating a work of art or design which stands in relation to history (i.e. to construct a Inter-Position), the following steps are essential...
The term History describes a single action or a continuity of actions which have the quality of a quantitative impact. Quantitative impact means the number of people which are influenced by this respective action.
Lectures 2014
The idea is simple - a young American woman is confronted with her destiny, whatever it might be