M HKA Ensembles

Art Something, Amsterdam

23 August 1980 - 13 September 1980

"I lay thin plastic on the floor and pour yellow-fluorescent water on it, it is slightly radio-active (not harmless). I hang 21 texts on the wall on different heights, fluorescent on transparent plexi, clear in what they stand for. The texts are combined by the use of thin, black electricity- wires. The combinations are made on the spot (my thoughts and interests of that very moment). There hangs a spiral for formed by a large thick sheet of plastic, in there 17 plexi-works of irregular shapes, and new as well as older images on them. It is quite possible to walk in but not out. It is necessary to walk through the water, and difficult to see a thing through the thick plastic. The lights are 4 black lights and 1 TL under the plastic. On the opening-night disturbing but aesthetically acceptable music is played. The whole has a feeling of walking into a power-field. To enter an idea."

"A new manner of perceiving can only perceive the new. Therefore I use signs who
-           have the future as content
-           present new ways of thinking
-           stand on their own
-           replace the terms form and colour as separate units.

This is the start of an investigation towards information. In how far science has influenced our future -- and in the future? In how far logics will play a role in this.

            future                                     art

                                    =

            logics                                       science

Practical use of “logics” leads to gain of time through passing over predictable processes. It is very positive to say things which one never could have thought. This means that the evolution of your way of thinking - goes on outside you without consciousness or personal intervention - certain circumstances become defining for immediate train of thought. An image only calls 1x certain thought  -- sometimes an image calls the memory to that thought. Associations on 1 bit of time -- in relation to an image are unique. Everything has to be made so that the continuance is in it -- and so that it is never finished."

 – Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven 

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