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The EINSTELLUNGSRAUM - where it
obviously is about developement of thoughts under special consideration
for
questions of guiding and steering - used to be a flower shop hence a
store where once could buy especially flowers hence ideas - the result
of a winding process, cut off and sold by piece. That is why the Sabine
Rehlich's desks are so colorful. They stand around here in the glaring
colors of wired Gerbera waiting for stillness in the room or stillness
on Wandsbeker Chaussee - of which latter will not happen.
The situation is not unlike sermons which are held from pedestrians bridges above the Autobahn with spread arms waving to the buzzing traffic. Though we are dealing here in EINSTELLUNGSRAUM with a winding pedestal or rotating platform. One speaks of a winding landing (in German the word 'Wendepodest' = 'winding pedestal' is used for 'winding landing') within staircases that wind up in a zickzack hence always when the direction of movement changes. Here the direction of movement of the passing traffic runs crossways to the direction of view of the person standing at the desk. Only by view can the street be crossed in a straight line as long as one does not allow distraction from left or right, for that a little practice hence again patience is necessary. Also the name EINSTELLUNGSRAUM has something to do with 'standing' and 'waiting'. And the thought comes from where it evolves - that is in the foot, more precisely at the bottom of the sole (ask Kant, ask Benjamin, ask Pessoa, ask all the famous walkers - especially R. Walser - and strollers actually). I just claim now that standing is a reduced form of walking. What stays the same in 'standing' and 'walking' is the straight direction of thoughts from sole directly into the head to the googling-around eyes, different when sitting when one has to take into account a considerable moment of delay with two 90 degrees angles. |
But the head will always claim to
look where walking is allegedly
aiming to, but that is not true because the touching down sole of the
foot is the 'dark side of the moon' so to speak and there things occur which we cannot anticipate. Anyways brain physiologists are convinced that the decision for an action is not made conciously but icoming from the dark side of the moon so-to-say is transmitted much earlier to the head and the consciousness. And also here with this direction of view across the street we can convict the head of a fancyfull but especially silly idea: because at this point the Wandsbeker Chaussee is better not crossed even when one can look across very decidedly. Maybe that is why one holds on to the desks, especially at assemblies and in the Bundestag. The grasping and clutching hands in agreement with the soles of the standing feet know that each direction of view does not necessarily have to be translated into action. Waiting and holding on then, because being seated and resting the soul becomes even wiser so they say but hardly does one settle it is actually also the question if the soul is there to become wiser. When hands can no longer hold on to something can not grasp the speaker's desk, then it will go on, the soul - or the sole - does not want to become wiser, it wants to go on and on - walking, running, marching. Because we do go somewhere but rather we simply go on, that we do go on is relevant not the 'where to'. That is all the soles demand and when one rests, not on the way to x/y, but at such a desk by Sabine Rehlich one can let ones thought climb up for a short moment, thought that one always only spreads around otherwise. To stand has the advantage of focusing whilst walking gives in to the impuls of our balance apparatus as 2-leggersare built to run, not to stand or they fall unless they hold on to a speaker's desk. |
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