Kerim Seiler
NOMADIC STRUCTURES DIGEST
29/07/2010
- 01/09/2010
Kerim Seiler. Nomadic Structures Digest (installation view) (2010).
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For his second exhibition at blank projects, Swiss artist Kerim Seiler will utilise the exhibition to present new works pertaining to his Nomadic Structures project which traveled South Africa earlier this year.
The Nomadic Structures project was a collaboration between Seiler and dancer/choreographer Gregor Metzger – that was installed in various urban and rural locations in South Africa in March and April. The project featured ‘Pneuma Somnambul’ (or ‘Restless Spirit’) - a sculpture made up of a number of tetrahedron-shaped cells and decorated with colourful fluorescent lights that blink at a slow place.The main goal of the project was to present the sculpture ‘Pneuma Somnambul’ in as many locations as possible – including the main centres of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg but also lesser traversed locations in between. In fact, the process of traveling, finding interesting locations, negotiating, constructing ‘Pneuma’, its presentation, documentation, and then subsequent deconstruction all are integral to the project. These performative qualities of the work, says Seiler, suggest “a very long, abstract dance piece which finds its rhythm in days and weeks rather than in the ticks of a stopwatch.”
The sculpture was assembled on the top of Lion’s Head in Cape Town on 28 February, Arts On Main/Main Street Life in Johannesburg (13 March), the KZNSA Gallery in Durban (23 March), Lusikisiki (27 March), Mpande, the Drakensberg, the Cederberg and the Klein Karoo.
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