teilnehmen
2009
“A problem does not call so much for a solution, in an analytical or resolving sense, but rather for a construction, a creation. It is ‘resolved’ in the act of doing” (M. de Unamuno). ”
A group of x persons – unfamiliar to each other – is invited to divide an irregularly shaped cake in y same-sized portions with the use of instruments laying on the table, the group’s ‘action field’. Nothing else is predetermined. These ‘game rules’ are made known to the participants at the moment of their meeting with the subject. The work is conceptualized as an experiment in progress and its deployment is inevitably incalculable by public performance. The group’s work is the ‘happening’ itself. The work’s duration is the period needed each time to bring the act to an end. The comical character of the activity relates to a genre of caricatures which address power issues as expressed in territorial claiming.
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Action involving six participants and their knifes, cake, table, checked paper, thread, napkins, triangles, dividers, ruler, flexible meter, pencils.