{"id":859,"date":"2013-09-12T15:37:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/?post_type=portfolio&p=859\/"},"modified":"2017-07-26T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T12:03:48","slug":"brain-box-ideology","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/en\/portfolio\/brain-box-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Box \u2013 Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row thb_full_width=”true” full_height=”yes” parallax=”content-moving” parallax_image=”1272″][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Brain Box \u2013 Ideologie” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text animation=”animation bottom-to-top” el_class=”pseudo-attributes”]\n

2013 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a04 \u00d7 3,50 \u00d7 3,50 m \u00a0 \u00a0 Rubberbands, cord, foil, gouache
\nRepresented by Bo Bjerggaard gallery at art berlin contemporary, Berlin<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]I tried to trace the path from an idea to an ideology. The notion of idea is an open one; we often use the term as a synonym for inspiration. Things or possibilities inspire us \u2013 they seem to have an external source. In the \u201cBrain Box\u201d I show this external link by the bands that stretch from or towards the ceiling. The main strand leads to the ceiling and falls back into the Brain Box, ending in a knot. The idea becomes entangled, resulting in an ideology, or becomes a system that connects various concepts.
\nHow does an idea become ideology, a system of belief? When and how does an idea become radical? How is society connected to the individual? When do we become trapped in our own labyrinth of thought?<\/p>\n

The Brain Box shows the path of a person who reacts to and positions herself in relation to society and history. It is the spatial sketch of an idea that can, under certain circumstances become an ideology, a model for living.
\nSpanned bands give rise to a hierarchical system in which biographical elements become the foundation and the companion of a thought. Through the various concepts noted on the wall, facts are connected to fictions, actions to reactions, and events to experiences. Rubber bands of various thickness stand for different connections, tracing a development that ends tragically in its radicalization.
\nCultural symbols such as the pentagram find their way from the outside (via the elastic bands) into the thought process. The pentagram is a highly complex symbol: on the one hand it stands for the universal human; but turned it on its head, as on the right wall, it symbolizes evil. On the floor is the red five-pointed star fully colored, which, for example, the RAF selected as the ideological symbol of their political struggle.
\nThe strongest link, a red knit cord, represents the beginning \u2013 an idea \u2013 that ends in an inextricable knot, interrupting development.
\nThen the material changes: an elastic band, only 5 mm thick, brings together six concepts into a universal pentagram: experience with event, dream with trauma, and fact with fiction.
\nVisitors can walk through the installation, the pentagram changes according to the position of the viewer. It seems to stretch or constrict, even as its form remains constant. The left side depicts the concepts along a historical course, while the right side notes the person\u2019s reactions through key words.
\nThe interconnections become even more apparent along the lower, thinner web of lines, along which notions such as truth and reality, action and reaction, real and radical are clearly united. The central notion of power is further divided on the right wall into myth \/ martyr \/ moral \/ manipulation \/ impotence.
\nThe next level, indicated by elastic bands only 3 mm thick, joins social and political aspects with autobiographical reactions to them. This reveals a historical trajectory, which is prerequisite for an individual biography.
\nUltimately a person becomes recognizable, who is reacting to (her) contemporary history. Behind this lies a real person; a woman on whose biography I based this piece. She remains unnamed, and the situation remains a model.
\nThe thinnest and most delicate lines show the progression of a catastrophe. The actual process of radicalization occurs through the move into illegality and the use of violence. Here, the helplessness of a society is shown through the state authority that imprisons, decrees solitary confinement, and prohibits all communication. What started as the idea of a new social order through peaceful protest becomes a resistance with bilateral violence, and ends with injury to the constitutional state and the suicide of highly talented people.
\nThe installation can be realized in other locations and in other contexts.<\/p>\n

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2016 \u00a0 \u00a0 8 \u00d7 5 \u00d7 4 m \u00a0 \u00a0 Rubberbands, cord, foil and gouache
\nKunsthallen Brandts, Odense<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]

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