Whisper
Summary
Temat till utställningen ”The fourth dimension” är en fråga i form av en kort text. Den ställdes till mig och mina tre kollegor på Metallgestaltning på HDK Valand, Campus Steneby: Tobias Birgersson, Heiner Zimmermann och Karl Hallberg.
The renowned philosopher Pravu Mazumdar asked the participants the following question concerning the fourth dimension:” An object is habitually seen as an entanglement of three dimensions: form, content, material. These are the three conventional dimensions of objects. But there is a fourth dimension, which is the force that emanation of them.”
What does it mean to create objects from the standpoint of force, rather than that of a
form, a content, a material? What does it mean to create objects with the specific purpose of displaying their force and impact, which can materialise as their performative function?”
Description of project
Jag besvarade frågan med en text och ett tillhörande verk. Själva det fysiska arbetet var en formtagning av ett stort rotsystem av en nedhuggen gran. Jag överförde formen genom att spika fast en väv av tunna ståltrådar över rotsystemets yta och svetsa ihop dem där de möttes. Jag kunde sedan ta trädets form i stycken och sammanfoga dem igen i utställningshallen. Resultatet är en transparent yta av en massiv organism som en gång levde.
Texten som följde med verket är denna:
I am a storyteller without words. My language is that of steel and blisters, where every noun and detail is slowly added one to the other.
Material, places and time. These are the concrete things that make up our three dimensional, physical world. The fourth dimension is a power beyond all. It flows free from the laws of nature, free from gravity and time, matter and logic. Still it uses them all to its benefits. The fourth dimension is the thirst for making up stories, to tell events into existence. To make sense. And nonsense.
This is a story from the outskirts of my garden, where the bumblebees meet with whispers from the vast forest beyond. Ones upon a time a great giant resided here. It stretched its top towards the sky and its roots deep down into the earth itself. Maybe it was the first and oldest of its kind? As earth turned through the black space nights and the bright radiation of the sun, the giant increased its power and wisdom. Until one day.
Type of work
Fysiska artefakter
Published in
Utställningshallen Holländeriet, Not Quite Fengersfors
Link to web site
https://www.notquite.se/utstallning/the-fourth-dimension/ www.linasoderberg.se
Date
2021Creator
Söderberg, Lina
Keywords
Rotsystem
Väv
Nät
Svets
Yta
Skulptur
Metallkonst
Formtagning
Träd
Skog
Roots
Surface
Welding
Sculpture
Metal art
Publication type
artistic work
Language
eng