30.10.2009. SLOBODNA TEMA





The camel, the lion and the child, 2009.
wood, metal, velcro, curtain, 230V- 12V transformer, electro engine (12V, 5A)
250x100x100 cm

The base idea of this installation is the philosophy of Nietsche's Übermensch, from the words of Zarathustra. I combine it with various theory's on mankinds development actually going backwards, gets retarded or is non-lineair. Personally i prefer to see it as a circular process without end nor beginning. At the point that we've reached Nietsche's child, we will become the camel again. As one theory on extra terestial life says, we are the most developed species in the universe but for some unclear reason we decided to go back to the level of 3 or 4 dimensions instead of 8. To me it doesn't matter whether it's true, stupid or smart, I think it's a cycle like any other evolution in the universe.
In the installation that development is symbolised by a curtain, attached to a continuously spinning electro engine, slowly wrapping up as it's being secured on the floor by a rigid surface of velcro (the camel, dragging through the desert without a free will. Just going on from oasis to wherever you will tell them to go). At the point that it starts to lift the weight it will start losing grip on the velcro surface, until it rips loose with the familiar sound of fabric rippin loose from velcro. It starts spinning around like a storm (the lion, who developed a free will, ripping loose from any higher power. Going around with the power of a storm but as well with as less directions as a storm) until it gets closer to the floor where it will end in a souffi dance (the child, peacefully playing, dancing, creating). At the point that it reaches the floor it will grip the velcro again and the whole cycle will start all over.