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I Think A Thinker
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I Think A Thinker
(2017)
https://www.parvez.work
Tags
vwg:declare
2017
Fotos / Photos
Staging
Appropriation
Ritual
Sculpture
Communication
Symbolically
Fire
Paper
Language
Setting
'Donate a thought! I need to think.’ - the instruction on the paper read.
The artist was in search of a 'great' thought - a profound thought that could put an artist on a pedestal. He asked the viewers to donate thoughts. He searched through his mobile phone for thoughts. People generously penned down thoughts of all kinds, shapes and sizes, colors, from everywhere and nowhere, meaning everything and nothing, seeking, spurning, connecting, disconnecting… But, in the end, a fire consumed them all.
The performance obviously references Auguste Rodin’s ‘Thinker’, although in no particular way.
The artist was in search of a 'great' thought - a profound thought that could put an artist on a pedestal. He asked the viewers to donate thoughts. He searched through his mobile phone for thoughts. People generously penned down thoughts of all kinds, shapes and sizes, colors, from everywhere and nowhere, meaning everything and nothing, seeking, spurning, connecting, disconnecting… But, in the end, a fire consumed them all.
The performance obviously references Auguste Rodin’s ‘Thinker’, although in no particular way.
Remark
Video - Produced and edited by Parvez. (Original Video resolution 1920 x 1080)
Photo_01 by Priyanka Govil
Photo_02 by Urs Schmidt
Photo_03 by Priyanka Govil
Photo_04 by Priyanka Govil
Photo_05 by Priyanka Govil
Legs Zentralschweiz
place: Turbinenhalle Giswil, Giswil
KuratorIn: Huber, Judith; Saemann, Andrea
Dokumentationstyp: Dokumentation einer Performance/Aktion / Documentation of a performance/action
Alternative
Photos and Video documentation
Medium
Fotos / Photos
Dauer: 12:00