Site-specific intervention works on two levels and each of them activates viewers in a different way. Signs on the walls encourage new views, associations, more or less conscious linking of visual perceptions. By looking at them, you can compare them or read their visuality as a specific form of language. However, it is also possible to take the assignment in hand and proceed to fulfill it - with the help of the present signs, formulate your own message, pass it on through the other person, concentrate on the touch as the moment of sending. The ordinary assignment is to actively participate in the world, learn to perceive where and how our desires flow, and find new, functional connections with others.
By using the existing signs, send a message to a dream being, to a close person in the future. Draw your message on the back of the person present.
A situation on the border between a child's game and a communication experiment. A shared space for unarticulated meeting of people. The open form allows value to become an uncertain, living connection between intuitive and cognitive action. Instead of a finished work (artifact), it should bring to the participants an expansion of their own perspective and a more subtle connection to the presence and reactions of others.
We are at the interface between emotional and physical, visualization and internalization, desire and manifestation of proximity. We believe that consciously translating a visual message into a haptic form creates the conditions to carry the message forward, into the future, where our wish can hang until someone fulfills it.
Is it possible for a wish (in whole or in part) to be scanned, soaked up, embodied?
Is it possible for the body to release the wish (in whole or in part) and project it in front of itself?
Whether we shape the visual trace perceived by touch as a letter, diagram, map, ornament or simple drawing, its concentrated imprint on the body opens up two questions:
Is it possible for a wish (in whole or in part) to be scanned, soaked up, embodied?
Is it possible for the body to release the wish (in whole or in part) and project it in front of itself?
Whether we shape the visual trace perceived by touch as a letter, diagram, map, ornament or simple drawing, its concentrated imprint on the body opens up two questions:
How to overcome the distance.
How to overcome proximity.
How to overcome proximity.
The Ordinary Assignment is about transfer of meanings.
mural painting-intervention and workshop in Scout Institute at Kampa, Prague, 2023
curator: Václav Šafka
