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the Collector:
After Cage - Die Dinge
02 march 2006
Curator: Wendel ten Arve
Artists: Johannes Schwartz, Neeltje and Sara ten Westenend, Annelies Hermsen en Martin Butler
In the context of After Cage, curator Wendel ten Arve asked several artists to create an intervention in the exhibition based on the principles of John Cage.
Johannes Schwartz decided to photograph the artefacts both in the exhibition and in the temporary storage room. However, this is not a straightforward registration: Schwartz made the choice to use the technical camera in order to portray the view of this specific camera that allows the photographer to visualise the object. This glass framework on the backside of the camera has a grid and produces an inverted representation. By focusing on this specific image, which is normally only seen by the photographer himself, Schwartz directly addresses the medium of photography. He also shows both the construction behind the image, the technique necessary to make this construction and he mingles the grid of the exhibition landscape with the grid of the camera image. In the exhibition, these images were projected with a beamer as a direct reflection of the camera image and therefore inverted. On the website they are rotated 180 degrees.
Martin Butler, choreographer, used the principle of coincidence of Cage to make a choice in music and prior to the start of the choreography, the musicians played cards in order to define the definitive form and built-up of the musical piece.
Annelies Hermsen also used the principle of coincidence of Cage in order to be able to create new recipes and unexpected flavour sensations.
Neeltje and Sara Ten Westenend organised a performance, which did not address the formal principles of Cage, but started from the idea of location that is connected to every collection. Individual works were connected to each other with wires, as if the objects could only create meaning through their cohesion. They were then photographed and used as part of their performance.
