2008 copyright by .horhizon
.Slow Sculpture
Author: Eva Sommeregger
It was neither Tuesday nor Wednesday, and it was certainly not at 02:32 pm when the phone rang at her place. She was in the midst of mounting a picture on the wall, that’s why she could not pick up the phone. That night, she had decided to go to the cinema and – because she didn’t have an answering machine, she would never find out who had called that day. She took it for granted that different events were taking place simultaneously, after all, she was living in the city. Missing out on occasions has never really bothered her. Was her day-to-day life affected by construction sites growing like mould everywhere feasible? This certain digging into the ground that would unveil a series of hidden structures and traces of eras most citizens had already forgotten about, showing traces of someone else who had been there before, mounting another perspective in space time. Traces, which connect another time in space and another space in time.
Traces of somebody who saw the same rays of sun making their way through the dawn, heard the same whispering in the trees, smelled the same mouldy air on the long escalators and elevators in the underground, someone who touched the same wall, the same floor, the same book or the same glass. Contributing to one sLow ScULPTure called city, a space between individuals within a material-immaterial something.
Objects being formed within a broad scale of time, creating an ever-changing archive. Either one defines their space where the rain falls or builds a roof against it. Either one flows through space or space flows through them. If there are no spaces anymore, cause urbanity has swallowed them all, then at least there are stories telling about them. And the stories were not too bad, so no need to forget them. Every story sets up its own space, and likewise every space is a carrier of stories. And then, it was Monday.
A collaboration with Itai Margula and Shimon Takasaki for the Aaron Betsky EveryVille Competition, showcased at the 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice.