PHENOME-NON-LOGICAL ARCHIVE 2005




Site Specific Action at the Cape Town National Archive Map Room in 2005 and Exhibited at the  Klein Karoo Art Festival South Africa 2017, Priest Gallery JHB South Africa 2018.




-'Phenome-non-logical Archive'
Eucalyptus leaves, Bronze, Copper , Coal, Wood (oak), Glass, Leather, Felt, Piano Cords,  Protea, Lead, Wax, Pine, Piano chords,
 People in Conversation, National Archive CT- SA, actions, Heisenburgs' Uncertainty Principle, Photographs and Sound Recordings, Intervention
2005

People in this photograph (left to right) Jill Trappler, Jenny Ord, Jaque Van Der Merwe.

The art work is a combination of participatory elements which include conversation,
experiential and perceptual forms.

Each person in the conversation threads eucalyptus leaves onto piano wires , forming tall column like leaf stacks.  The piano wires are connected to a box made of oak, filled with coal. Included in  this box is a glass container filled with eucalyptus sap and coal dust. One end of each piano wire, is submerged into the same bottle.
I facilitate this process and work with various actions including- readings of Heisenbergs' Uncertainty Theory and the listings of the plant species  that potentially have become the coal used in the work.
This provides a particular form from which a conversation can emerge.

After an hour of conversation (and once all the conversations have taken place),
the 'infused sap' is extracted from the bottle and placed in a vile, which is then connected to the leaf stacks.






Photographs Courtesy Jennifer Lovemore-Reed

















GOLD MOULD

Exhibition Curated by Wayne Matthews at KKNK South Africa 2017



Photographs courtsey of Wayne Matthews:







'Phenome-non-logical Archive'

Exhibition curated by Wayne Matthews at Priest Gallery JHB South Africa in September 2018.

Photographs courtesy Sarah Grace:



































































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