Collaboration: Joëlle Valterio, 15. January 2016, Schneller Kunstraum, Berne (CH)

The performance unravel wittgenstein, a sophisticated colour and language game, knits together both literal and metaphorical threads. Two continuous yarn-plies build the unicolour fabric of the artwork involved in the performance. In contrast to these threads, the texture of Wittgenstein’s remarks is not linear. The performance juxtaposes the fragmented threads of the text with the continuity of the threads comprising the artwork. The piece combines the performative unravelling of the text with the unravelling of the artwork itself through an act of deconstructive ‘craft’. By deconstructing this particular text, as well as the artwork, the performance also deconstructs the phenomenon of metamerism. The performance, after unravelling the unicolour artwork, highlights the two threads that had made it, revealing their two colours. This strategy is designed to reposition the unwanted metamerism in a different light, allowing the negatively perceived physical colour phenomenon to offer an aesthetically beautiful experience.

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