Monday, September 17, 2007

Deep surface


air at an unexpected location

With the addition of air, liquids and solids diminish their density. Something homogenous and solid transforms into a loose and perforated structure. The foam model indicates, that under circumstances yet to be clarified, the dense, the continuous and massive yields an invasion of the void. Air, the element most misunderstood, harvests means and ways to protrude into places, where no one expected its presence. Even more so, it brings into being strange places, which did not exist before. The process of becoming, is an occasion to watch the subversion of substance. By tradition, we are concerned with the potential to excavate substances and respond with suspicion or even guess transgression not to say perversion.
The aggregation of air filled voids, springs from a questionable victory over the solid, and as a foam like structure, appears to turn upside down the natural order within nature. It seems to be a bastard of material, emerging from an illegitimate marriage of elements. As opposed to this common disrespect of the seemingly vague, the latent, the close to arbitrary, and the irregular, the studio will take the foam model serious and work on a rehabilitation of its inherent processes and expressions.
In order to complement the widely used methodologies of becoming, such as drift, repetition with difference, processes of catastrophy or creative recombination, we will explore the term explication, in the sense of a discrete move from one condition to the next, like a continuous escape from the status quo.

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