6.5.2012 11:45 looking at a cardboard box
in a storage room, Pekilo, Mänttä
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We're currently working with an upcoming exhibition,
which takes place in Poriginal Gallery during 20.4.–7.5.2013. For one part of
the show we've been developing an idea of a performative quantum leap back in
time, which tangibly means that we're going to reenact in the gallery space some
of our former artistic methods spiced up with live commentary and conceptual framework
drawing out from our current points of interest. In John Cage's (1912–1992) Some rules
for students and teachers or just about anybody else, rule n:o 8 states 'Do
not try to create and analyze at the same time. They are different processes'. What
we're about to do in the gallery is to mix these two time dimensions into one; in
our case, the pre-existent artistic labor and the subsequent studies of it are
being performed in parallel. Mr. Cage wouldn't turn in his grave since he
acknowledges that different time sequences might overlap, and therefore
conceive a situation where creation and analysis coexist simultaneously. It's
somewhat preceptive to look back and try to figure out something you've once
made, but at that time simply had no clue why. Or there's a slight clue so
delicately encrypted that it takes some time to decode it, 'to put it in
words'. There's no mystification here since the need to express oneself
pictorially just happened to exceed the verbal need with a time span of few
years.