10 days without words

During the exhibition Transfer, Herbert Weber and I lived and worked at Haus zur Glocke and completely eschewed verbal communication

Concept:

– for 10 days, we do not speak, write or read

– we work together and individually

– our work and communication manifests itself in visual form on the room’s surfaces

– we use paper, fabric, photography, projection, painting and drawing

– the artistic work emerges on the scene

– mostly, we spend day and night in one room

– what happens when we eschew an important means of daily life such as language?

– we are interested in what emerges from the blank space

– in a new time, we give back the original meaning to the image

– we look for reduction and long for clarity

– we ask visitors not to talk to us and not to sit on our bed

During those ten days, the installation constantly changes and keeps reforming through the influence of our individual ways of working. At times, we influence each other and react directly to one another. Thus, a visual third emerges. At other times, we press ahead with our own work. With sketchbook and camera, we also carry the nearby lake region from outside into our installation. Not using words makes both of us work more formally. Condensed drawings emerge in my sketchbook; the paintings on the curtains become more abstract and are shaped by flowing structures. Sculptural forms arise through superpositions of spots and water splashes. I try to imitate those with drawing ink in my sketchbook.

On non-public days, we completely let ourselves in to our new form of communication as an intimate space. On days with an audience, our performance gets a new dimension through direct confrontation.

• Start: Friday 8 April, 8pm
  End: Sunday 17 April 5.30pm

• 2016

• Herbert Weber
• Haus zur Glocke