SIGNA – The Northern Complex Method
As the artistic duo SIGNA, Signa Soerensen and Arthur Koestler provide our world with replicas of itself. They install reproductions of the original, three-dimensional parallel worlds, habitable cartographies: a run-down flophouse is the setting for the hopeless world of six Eastern European prostitutes who are ruled by their social degredation and the brutality of their pimps — a mystical nightmare universe consisting of forty areas filled with religious, political and social rituals. The wing of a closed-off psychiatric station, led by the female doctor, Dorine Chaikin, and her team, subject amnesia patients to a procedure that includes welfare service and discipline.
The parallel worlds of SIGNA are replicas which have lost their historical and geographical attributes. The colors, costumes, furniture, in their tiniest details: these seamless properties offer temporal and regional associations, but the where and when remains indefinite.
Whoever enters these worlds signs on for six, twelve, or twenty-four hour periods, and carries out a part of the happening. The power of one’s fantasy, personality, and borders begins a play between oneself and one’s other. For this year’s Steirischer Herbst, the CastYourArt team asked for a visit to the northern complex of the Dorine Chaikin Institute and received one of its rare admissions. (wh/jn)
https://signa.dk/Das könnte Sie auch interessieren
LAWRENCE WEINER. Out Of Sight
22. July 2022
Wilhelm Scherübl - Transform
19. August 2009
Edvard Munch - Frieze of Life
18. October 2015
Irene Andessner - Portraits of the Self
24. December 2009
Gerhard Ruehm - Language as Material
27. September 2016
Michel de Broin - Matters of Circulation
26. November 2008
DIE KUNST VON ERWIN BOHATSCH. Ein Ausstellungsporträt aus der Albertina
12. April 2016