a blunt object or piece of clay dropped onto a hard surface with medium impact
‘a blunt object or piece of clay dropped onto a hard surface with medium impact’ addresses the physicality of text, gesture, verbal and digital forms of communication. The work explores the relationship between digital consumerism and sleep as an anti-capitalist state of silent resistance.
The environment consists of modular systems and objects with rounded corners. The flexible plug-in systems and repetitive objects and elements suggest that the exhibition can be dismantled or reconfigured or stored away in a very short time. The light of the exhibition space is warm. The blue hue of the cold neon tubes has been filtered out and replaced by a warm light that resembles the screen of a smartphone in night mode.
In seven scenes, the self-proclaimed ‘producer’ of the work reads a text that deals with the process of artistic work, failure, trauma in terms of shattered screen surfaces, moments of attention, working with hands and when they touch clay.
The protagonist suggests changing the exhibition, talking about possible actions of the “producer” and the spectators. It is not clear whether the voice is also a material or exists separately from the speaker. An abstract, monotonous sound piece plays in the background, rising and falling in a billowing manner - consisting of vibrations of a smartphone on different material surfaces - MDF, steel, ceramics, concrete, fabric.
The text changes as the protagonist disappears into a body-sized smartphone or sleeping bag-like object. Her voice slows down, the text becomes more fragmentary. The words are word suggestions from the smartphone, which the “producer” uses in English and German. During the performance, the “producer” takes a photo of the audience, which can be seen on her smartphone at the end of the performance and is left in a milled- out recess of an MDF panel that is leaning against the wall.
