May 2010 – September 2011 — Mute Objects of Expression
Stone (82 kg), mineral composite (calcium oxide, aluminum oxide, iron oxide), felt blankets.
Installation / performance at Archaeology of Autonomy, the
Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
A boulder quarried from the Loire Valley in France, where Francis Ponge wrote many of his poems, was installed within the museum’s geological collection. A hole drilled in the rock was then packed with a mineral composite which when mixed with water reacts and expands; as visitors passed through the space the stone began to split, the cracks slowly widening until it fell apart completely.
Stone (158 kg), mineral composite (calcium oxide, aluminium oxide, iron oxide), contact microphones, moving cart.
On this occasion, the very faint sounds emitted by the splitting boulder were recorded via contact microphones and later broadcast by FormContent Gallery, London, as part of their group show, “HaVE A LoOk! HAve a Look!”.
Stone (112 kg), plywood, mallet, iron “plugs and feathers”.
My contribution to “Theatre of Thought”, a performance / installation by Snejanka Mihaylova at Het Veem Theatre, Amsterdam. A stone was split with “plugs and feathers”, a primitive quarrying technique first used in ancient Egypt.
A strip of lead shaped against a granite talus near the village of Jesenice in the Karawanken Mountains.
(“Yes, I want my soft pencil marks to join with the hardness of the stone as did the language of my forebears…” —Peter Handke, Repetition)
