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| "Pressured proportions", Johannesburg, 2004 |
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Description: I bought 2 wrecked cars from a scrap yard. Cleaned them out,
cut them in the middle with angle grinder, took away 1 m, welded them
together, restored surface, had them spray painted in colours burgundy and
saffron gold, cut all remaining interior in two and shrunk it (chairs,
number plate, steering wheel) redressed interior seats with vinyl and glue,
put in new front and side windows, and also gave them each a light inside
supported with car battery.
I exhibited them on King George Street, Hillbrow. A place with bad
reputation, occupied by street-people, gangs and robbers as well as working
citizens and families. |
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| "Stolen/abandoned car", Berlin, Danziger Strasse, 2003 |
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| Stolen, smashed car, dressed with pink rubber foam inside. |
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Stolen/abandoned car |
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| "School, bodies in freedom/unfreedom..", Sweden, 2001 |
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Installation/intervention, materials: Plastic chairs, distorted chairs,
shortened chairs, dissembled chairs. Laminated drawings and texts.
Installation and documentation of an intervention at ground school for children.
The process began with the abnormal chair, and with a feeling of being in school.
I wanted a confrontation and went to this other school and stole a chair from a
small girl named Vanja. I then the next day went back with the abnormal chair,
insisting to put it in a classroom, until teachers rejected me.
In the installation I wanted to make a feeling of ongoing work and activity and
the monitors also show welding and cutting in metal, combining the sound of
shouting school children with the sound of angle grinder and welding. |
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School, bodies in freedom/unfreedom. |
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| "The shit that makes the world go around, carrying cargo/prison." Sweden, 2001 |
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(Metal, corrugated steel, rubber foam dummies, paper bags, bags and briefcases,(some mounted on metal rollers )
drawing, silver spray, 2 video cameras, 5 metal camera dummies, copied images,
video monitor, hired people)
Circuit in and around container including people and camera.
Four people were hired to during the 2 weeks exhibition time constantly move around the
objects, bags, rubber dummies, etc. They are also constantly filming each other and then
playing the tapes on a monitor in the installation.
Another important motive in both this work and in "School-bodies in freedom/unfreedom…" was
to disassemble, smash to pieces an understanding of form and quality of form I
had been carrying. |
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Carrying Cargo / Prison |
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| "Other People", Umeå, Sweden, 2001 |
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Materials: paper, clothes, glue, adhesive tape, folio.
Clothes were second hand sports clothes. Dummys made of clothes, plastic bags and glue.
Two people were hired to also be dummies, dressed in same atmosphere clothes as artificial dummies.
They were instructed to be apathic, not talk, and not take contact.
I wanted the relation between empty bodies, the real bodies and the rubbish
on the floor to be a coherent scale . The visitors could enter the environment
as they wished. The dummies were made out of plastic bags, blown up with
pressured air, and then quickly taped to hold the shape up. The air left the
bag but the shell held the form.
The dummies were then dressed with clothes. The body is a container and the
room is a container. |
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| "Avalanche in Sweden", Performance/Installation, Umeå, Sweden, 2001. |
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In collaboration with Churchill Songs Madikida. (S.A)
Installation representing boxing ring and audience. Performance consisting
of a 5 round boxing fight.
Installation/one night event performance in gym.
Materials: Ring: wood, metal, ropes. "Audience" ,dummies: plaster, plaster
of paris, plastic, clothes strengthened with glue, inflated plastic bags. A
3 m long spider in glue and fabric was hanging over the ring.
Through some similar experiences , for example boxing, the 2 of us found a
mutual ground to meet and collaborate. We were dealing with fear and
limitations.
I started working with performance 1998, as a way to find a direct
confrontation with risk and fear. From then I wanted to transmit the same
risk and threat into sculpture-installation.
We were able to work with issues of social background, color, inequalities
etcetera in a way that was digestible, that was a first hand experience. It
was the starting point for a longterm collaboration between us.
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