HILDA EKEROTH - notes on my work

 

I work with fragments as elements capable of fusing, indicating overlapping and contradictory designations. An abstract thinking of understanding paralleled to social and historical situations. The drawings, paintings and sceneries, create an index of unstable systems, in which, the material - in a direct and physical way - carries the idea. The values of the work are not invoked or applied, but enacted. Enacted in terms of technique, sensibility, the body, and touching - through paint, canvas, paper, line and plaster.
Connoting being. The human being is the Night of the World - an empty nothingness that contains everything in its simplicity, a wealth of infinitely many ideas, images, of which none simply occurs to it or which are not present. The Night of the World is the chaos, which the subject's subjectivity is. The chaos is turbulent and unsecured and undefined.
According to the second law of thermodynamics the unidirectional motion of a projectile would be continuously transformed by the frictional resistance of the air into heat, that is, into random, disorderly motions of the molecules of the air and the projectile.
This randomness or disorder, as in the unstable boundaries of a cloud, or in the effects of steam, or in the movement of the tides, is chaos. In this unfoundedness of existence, in its originary ungroundedness, the art work, the text, is coming into presence, it merges to form, it is interwoven as fabric, a piece of cloth, the threads are interwoven relationships - of concepts and things, both moments of the same world.
Or, in a flux of forces, the work is a measuring of consistency against chaos. Something fleeting - a mood, an atmosphere - which is determining. Still avoiding the trap of exemplarity, thus not explaining, but striving to understand the loose ends of comprehension and communicating. It is form, which has to be extracted from the cacophony of noise and chaos; form (communication) is the exclusion of noise, an escape from the domain of the empirical.
Presentation, appearance and understanding and their premises are at stake. Drawing on the relations of concept, perception and affect - and their forming of interspecies junction points - these follow a combinatorial logic, in which neither element is privileged over and above any of the others.

 

Tanz, tanz, tanz!
Oder sind wir verloren!
Es kommt natürlich vor, dass es Situationen gibt,
wo man nichts mehr sagen kann,
wirklich sprachlos ist.
Es ist ja alles nur ein "Ahnbar-Machen".
Auch, wenn ich Worte benutze,
geht es ja gar nicht um die Worte,
sondern [dar]um was ganz Bestimmtes
ahnen zu lassen
und ich glaube,
da fängt dann auch der Tanz wieder an.

(Pina Bausch)

(There are situations, of course,
that leave you utterly speechless.
All you can do is hint at things.
Words, too, can´t do more than just evoke things.)