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1
Dec
2010
collection of thoughts 2
I’m nothing.
I’ll always be nothing.
I can’t even wish to be something.
Aside from that, I’ve got all the world’s dreams inside me.
F.Pessoa found words for the the artist…
25
Nov
2010
Paintings that got selected …
this diptochon was choosen to participae in a competition”ORIENT OKZIDENT” in offenbach – this is what I wrote about them:
John Berger said:
… But the essential way of seeing women, the essential use to which their images are put, has not changed. Women are depicted in a quite different way from men – not only because the feminine is different from the masculine – but because the ‘ideal’ spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman
is designed to flatter him. If you have any doubt about that this is so, make the following experiment. Choose an image of a traditional nude. Transform the woman into a man. Either in your mind’s eye or by drawing on the reproduction. Then notice the violence which that transformation does. Not to the image, but to the assumptions of a likely viewer.
I had just read that, as I started to think about Orient & Occident, the history of iconography, the respect concerning taboos & painting images.
I thought about hair & how every plain area in my neighborhood is visually possessed by derobing & depilation mania – our poor senses!
is that freedom?
& on the other side women – covered up under huge amounts of textile – trying to cope with the kids in the swimmingpool or just on the playground
strange ideas cross my mind (fashionvictims???)
the strangeness of solutions that we manage to talk ourselves into beeing total logic
who is protected? she from him? he from her sight? now, is he incapacitated & she looses her identity?
15
Nov
2010
thoughts…
I think more than anything else I’m just an extension of certain practices, minimalism or conceptualism, that I am developing areas I think were not totally dealt with. I don’t like this idea of having to undermine your ancestors, of ridiculing them, undermining them, and making less out of them. I think we’re part of a historical process and I think that this attitude that you have to murder your father in order to start something new is bullshit. We are part of this culture, we don’t come from outer space, so whatever I do is already something that has entered my brain from some other sources and is then synthesized into something new. I respect my elders and I learn from them. There’s nothing wrong
with accepting that. I’m secure enough to accept those influences. I don’t have anxiety about originality, I really don’t.
an Interview with Felix Gonzalez-Torres by Robert Storr
all the thoughts that find words, after they found pictures? or how to describe what your heart already knows?
11
Nov
2010
collection of thoughts 1
mark rothko wrote in 1947
” I think of my pictures as dramas, the presentation of this drama in the familiar world was never possible, unless everyday acts belonged to a ritual accepted as referring to a transcendent realm. Even the archaic artist who had an uncanny virtuosity, found it necessary to create a group of intermediaries, monsters, hybrids, gods and demi-gods. The difference is that, since the archaic artist was living in a more practical society than ours, the urgency of transcendent experience was understood and given an official status….
with us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.
Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact our dramas: art’s most profound moments express this frustration.”
4
Nov
2010
TV3 – as screensaver in university…
stills from the video – that is invading the screens in the library at university in Vienna
another version of the performance ZENTRIFUGE – in this film we managed to put space & gravity in question.
I hear the students like to follow it & try to figure out how it works …
20
Sep
2010
oberwart OHO !
a pair of stockings – that were used in a film – made their way to the white wash – now they look like a requisite – they might stand all by themselves!
and again – shoes! awesome – there was something about them, but she didn’t want to tell… so there they are covering the mistery…
14
Sep
2010
WEISS WASCHEN IN OBERWART
im Rahmen von “ANTIDEPRESSIVA FÜR OBERWART”
lade ich ein zur
XIX. Servicestelle
zum
WEISS WASCHEN
Dunkelschwarz
Ein Projekt, kuratiert und konzipiert von Sabine Maier [Machfeld]
Produktion & Realisation Offenes Haus Oberwart
Installationen/Interventionen im öffentlichen Raum
17. September ab 15 uhr
Eröffnung: 20:00 h
Ausstellungsdauer: 18. September – 15 November
Teilnehmende KünstlerInnen u.a.: Cynthia Schwertsik (A), Cheikh Niass (SN), Eva Ursprung (A), elffriede i.a (D), Leo Schatzl (A), Machfeld (A), Norman White (CA), Wolfgang Horwarth (A), Tapfuma Gutsa (Zim)
Artist in Residence (angefragt): Aston (BN), Didier Ruecekli (RWA), Singamo Botto (Zim)
ich freue mich wenn die eine oder der andere sich gerade in Oberwart befinden & mir etwas zum WEISS WASCHEN bringen…
cynthia
28
Jul
2010
I’m the KING of the CASTLE
to be happy
to be totally happy – that is an ecstatic feeling you forget about everything & there is this moment… maybe even a long moment – the world is perfect, all is right…
I am looking for that experience again – I see it with kids quite often -
7
Jul
2010
16
Jun
2010
she gave an answer…
this is what she said
if you cant read it :
A BUNCH OF HOOLIGANS VS ONE BRAVE MAID ???
MY COLOURS VS YOUR PURE HATE !!!
so i think my guess was right – my son say’s maybe they where upset because she over-sprayed some of their stuff – well – it’s just bad – i was so happy to see a girl out there …
