btw (is it summer yet)


       photo, stand, drawing with crayon on tracing paper, acrylic on canvas, sunshine stand, metal object,                      concrete, polymer clay, text, 2024


Die Installation besteht aus mehreren einzelnen Kunstwerken mit den Titeln:


kaffekränzchen

almdudler

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“Meaghan Morris […] put it perhaps less brusquely: ‘I am less interested in [leisure activities] than I am in how these cut across and organize the various time/spaces in which the labour, as well as the pleasure, of everyday living is carried out.’”[1]


Ein Pauspapier auf Holzrahmen. Holz, feine Bleistiftlinien und weiße Pastellkreidespuren. Man erkennt eine Tasse und eventuell einen Topf.

Ein nicht mehr erkennbarer Schriftzug in rot. 

Ein leeres Verkehrsschild aus blankem Aluminium. Die Hinterseite ganz mit weißem Marker angemalt.

Ein Ball aus Plastilin und Schrift

Ein Fotoplakat und ein Plakat-Ständer.

Ein alter Sonnenschirmständer aus Beton.



kaffekränzchen, part of btw (is it summer yet)


kaffekränzchen, part of btw (is it summer yet)


“… emptiness, […], has become equivalent to inactivity, to ‘inaction or want of occupation’, an etymology that suggest a millennial-long moral dimension to the terminology of idleness.”[2]


sich gegenseitiges gratulieren, Teil von btw(is it summer yet)
„After work you go to the grocery store to get some milk and a carton of cigarettes. Where did you get those bruises? You don’t remember. Work was boring. You find a jar of bruise cream and a can of stewed tomatoes. Maybe a salad? Spinach, walnuts, blue cheese, apples, and you can’t decide between the Extra Large or Jumbo black olives. Which is bigger anyway? Extra Large has a blue label, Jumbo has a purple label. Both cans cost $1.29. While you’re deciding, the afternoon light is streaming through the windows behind the bank of checkout counters. Take the light inside you like a blessing, like a knee in the chest, holding onto it and not letting it go. Now let it go.“[3]





Almdudler, Teil von btw (is it summer yet)


[1] (Sharpe & Brett , 2008)

[2] DeFalco, Amelia: in Praise of Idleness. Aging and the Morality of Inactivity in: Cultural Critique, Vol. 92, University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

[3] Siken, Richard: Crush. You are Jeff, Yale University Press. 2005