Front
and back of the flow of life. There are always opposites in the flow of life.
When one is one side, the other side becomes invisible and vice versa. In a
way it is the invisible I experiment with in my work, something that exists
on different planes.
An important part of my work procedure is the physical contact with the material,
where the creative force comes to its full potential by means of performance,
where the invisible becomes visible (the making). It all comes alive in the
process of working with over-sized knitting needles, and the use of steel wool
spun on a hand spindle speaks for itself, using a traditional work process
normally seen as a feminine activity but performed by a man, bring the masculine/feminine
in as opposites.
Ret & Vrang is an ongoing performance which changes each time the work is performed.
As the knitting grows the history of each performance becomes a memory, the
whole knitting becomes a blanket of life.
At the moment the knitting is a square 1.5m x 1.5m. In time to come the work
will grow to a size out of proportions with all memory hidden in the blanket
of life.
Karl-Christian Geleff, 2008
lower
left: performance in Manchester Cathedral, photograph by Paul Herrmann
