| Passing
idea games related to the year subject SCHEIN*
as well as
remarks to
Julia Eltner's exhibition Nora Sdun, 08.03.2007 Art, that looks for its
salvation from SCHEIN* in play becomes sports.
The salvation from illusion - what is so bad about illusion and why on the other hand is there this desire for authenticity anyhow - and not for illusion - what obviously is identified with security? What does it mean when
American cars have "OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN
THEY APPEAR"
written onto their rear-view mirrors?** It is a
warning that things
seem
closer than they really are. That is actually strange
as one is the
more comfortable in traffic the further the security
distance is.
(In the following the German
word SCHEIN is looked at in its various meanings in
German. The
English 'appearance' of course does not necessarily
have exactly those
different meanings*)
There are
different kinds of
SCHEIN*(appearance). Angels appear, or
divine messengers or
those things
in the rear-view mirror. Julia Eltner made a serious
of such forms of
appearance a subject: rear-view mirrors, search
messages, bubbles and
surveillance cameras can be arranged each under an
area of
appearance. In rear-view mirrors and
mirrors in general one is dedicated to optical
illusionary
phenomenoms, one regards oneself beautiful or aged,
anyways one thinks
to find something in a reflection.
In search
announcements for people one greeds for a repetition
of
a situation which one believes one can make appear
again as soon as one
finds that person that caused one to have this special
experience. In
the metaphor of a bubble - the foam - just
those projections
are to be
found - passing, sensitive, tender and free flowing.
In surveillance
cameras
just that idea of freedom and illusion
implodes as the cameras well-knowingly deliver legally
binding visual
material of proof of events which one perceived
(found) differently
than the eye of the camera. The eye of the camera
though is the one
that sees more truly from the legal terminality point
of view - usable
for justice because of its alleged unbiased ever same
ability for
recurrance hence superior to human perception, the
camera is not
looking for something hence it does not find anything,
it merely
reports. So it is possible to come back to the crazy
idea to be able to
repeat things - as melancholy view into the mirror and
as search
announcement.
There are different kinds of SCHEIN (appearance) but everything is intertwined and connected with each other. |
With
the
writing on the rear-view mirror a direkt connection
between things and
appearances is alluded in a concrete solid manner. In a
corseness that
one finds more rarely otherwise as usually one tries to
hide such
circumstances. To appear more than what one is - to
advertice for
oneself and to glare (Sammy
Molcho, a pantomime,
said that there is
no natural movement one always acts)
Artists have
always tried for the distruction of the illusion, the
rebellion against
it as a rebellion against harmony, also as a rebellion
against anything
artificial, but such projects always stay caught
completely
within illusion themselves because with art it is truly
obvious that it
is not real but rather: truly built - always totally
artificial. The appearance as imitation of reality as mimesis is not to be freed of illusion. The only thing art can do in this case is to put one's card on the table and to carry around with itself as integral part the illusionary moment of rebellion as well as that of appearance. And not to deny that one cannot loosen oneself from it. Otherwise it has to do with advertising or other deception: like for example on the internet site www.will-dich-wiedersehen.de a desparatly mugged up construction of projection and advertising but driven by real truth, the desire to want to repeat a situation which so-to-say only perceives in the rear-view mirror as larger and again larger than it likely truly was (truly true) [in German the words 'war'=present tense for 'to be' and 'wahr'=true sound the same. Please also be reminded at this point of the explanation at the beginning regarding Mrs. Sdun's mistake about the text and American rear-view mirrors]. ("Wahrscheinlich" by the way is also a beautiful play on words with the letter combinations which have been developed for the word field SCHEIN) [W. means 'probabality'. so yet again another use/reference/meaning in the German language in connection with the word "Schein" - here very pointedly in combination with 'wahr' - true]. A strange search message on www.will-dich-wiedersehen.de reads: "Last saturday between 12 and 2 p.m. I was in the Rembrandt exhibition in Berliner Kunstforum at Potsdamer Platz. You were tall, wore darblue jeans and a lightblue shirt folded up to the ellbows. Your dark brown (black?) hair was lightly messy. I am a redhead and wore a white t-shirt and jeans with several buckles on the legs. We had intensiv eye contact and when I wanted to write down my number for you on a small piece of paper you were already gone. I would be pleased to find you again in this way!!!" Well this search message does quite nicely demonstrate what humans can do to describe with the support of an exhibition of Rembrandt - they try out a picture description of a person, not truly effective I say and also this is not a successful 'wanted' poster. |
| * see:
CROMOLOGIE
**Nora
Sdun quotes the text on American rear-view mirrors
wrongly - the text
actually is: "objects in mirror are closer than they
appear". Her quote
puts the realstatement into the opposite, and her
following argument is
built upon
this misunderstanding/error - please keep this in mind
when following
her argumentation.
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