Texts
15 texts · 6 essays · 9 notes
Essays
Argued texts on the practice — for curators, critics, and publications. Read in order or pick by interest.
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ITwo Registers, One Hand
For twenty years I have made work in two directions. The diptych operation across every register, the inverse of LeWitt as the textile practice's structural claim, and the frames as work in the erweiterter Kunstbegriff tradition.
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IIOn Distributed Authorship
The work is made by hands that are named. Bali studio, UKENA's seven-layer chain, Most Realistic Alien as the 2009 prototype. The named chain is the work, not labor hidden under one signature.
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IIIOn the Hand-Mark
The chalk drawn fast on dark fabric is the through-line. From early drawings to the textile work in Bali, the same rule: don't think, don't redo, don't lift. The line crosses to another hand. The gap is the work.
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IVAcross Classes
I trained at UdK in Lothar Baumgarten's class. That is incomplete. From the beginning I attended Sieverding, Experimentelle Medien, Steyerl, Daniel Richter, and architecture classes I was not enrolled in. The cross-disciplinary practice started in the cross-class education.
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VWhy I Built AIR
I built AIR because the residency itself was the artwork I wanted to make. The frames are not branding and not businesses on the side. They are the work, and they are how I afford to keep making the studio work without depending on the gallery system.
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VIThe 2010-2013 Prototype Period
Between 2010 and 2013 I made a series of small textile-conceptual works that I thought of as experiments. I now think they were the prototype. Everything that scaled up in Bali after 2017 was already there, in miniature.
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