…organising this page takes as much time & energy as writing a whole new text…
Acts of freedom or how to waste time ? (Catalogue Essay, June 2008)
A short experimental piece in response to Dave Ball’s 45″ video piece “How to live” produced in Berlin in summer 2008. In the video the artist is involved in more or less ludicrous, nonsensical and ironic actions that often lead nowhere in conventional terms. Feeling that Dave’s work is very much about the reversal of work and non-work I considered the value of time in relation to life and money as well as the role of the artist in relation to both economic efficiency and the economy of art production.
Laughter with one thousand edges (Postgraduate Dissertation, Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmiths College, October 2007)
My dissertation on “playfulness as a mode of thinking” became an experimental piece on art and philosophy. The text consists of six parts on different, conceptually interconnected topics. Together they are intended to perform the very playfulness I am interested in.
The inexhaustible joy and desire for spaces (Interview with Helga Blocksdorf, Member of the ‘architectural band’ après-nous from Berlin, September 2007)
This is the unedited script of our conversation on collaboration in general and on how their work can be seen as making an impact on a lived public or community in particular.
To think with dance and fly in language (April 2007)
Another creative, sometimes poetic approach to writing an academic essay: here I examine how the physicality of (philosophical) thinking could be scripted through dance.
Taking flight, three episodes (November 2006)
The first text I wrote on the MA Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths. Divided in three parts, it begins with a reflection on moving abroad and temporary living situations in a mixture of autobiography and art theory. ‘Episode 2′ comes very close to poetry and is an attempt to put into words how I feel to swim. ‘Episode 3′ stands in reference to Derrida’s “Signature, Event, Context” (in: ibid, Margins of Philosophy. 307-330) as this part was written as a sort of spontaneous reaction and playful account immediately after close-reading it. The version published here comes without any footnotes and only with a selected bibliography than the original academic version.
El Bauen: un hotel recuperado (In: Puntoycoma Magazine. No.7, Jul/Aug 2007) When I lived in Buenos Aires in 2004/05 I met a group of people who worked inside the Hotel Bauen, a former high class hotel in the city centre and at the time a “recuperated business”, that is run collectively by its workers. This article is about entering the abandoned offices of the former hotel management and encountering a site full of uncanny, sometimes bizarre traces reminiscent of the fateful months at the verge of 2000 and 2001 when the Argentinian economy collapsed.