You can see straight away which members of the family work well together and which don’t.
PW:I believe this is yet another reference to
the connection between action and sculpture.MW:We tend to regard the images we are
happen to be looking at as absolute. I’d like
to say that this pile in particular has always
changed. When I arrived today, it was round;previously it had been a wall, which then collapsed. It has constantly changed. Like the measuring tapes standing over there, it’s something which can be transformed. The ruler can move from here to there.
PW:Its state is variable. MW:That’s what I was trying to explain. To
come back to the Hallucigenia Products, they
needn’t necessarily be a sculpture – they could
be a text or a story. I often try to work with
diverse forms of Utopia. For this, I generally
use the method of comic strips because interms of editing it’s the best way of drawing people in and fascinating them. In this case
here, however, I’m only developing diverse models in order to communicate something.
This Storyboard from 1998/99 (The Swamp) presents a project that was pretty
unsuccessful for me. I raised the following
question: Is there a material that can be
defined from solid to gaseous such that it is
one single material and not different material
compositions or different states? For
example, how can a cube be defined such
that it is as hard as steel or diamond in one
part and starting to vaporise in another? Of
course, this material is as non-existent as King
Laurin’s magic belt which made the wearer
invisible. But I deliberately place these things
in equally mythological contexts, just as much
of what I do is mythology in its original sense.
This Soft Floor with the Mud Hole has to be
imagined like a room where everything is dark.
You go inside and suddenly the floor begins
to define itself in very different ways. With
every step you take, you get caught up in the
traces. You see what traces disappear after
three seconds or alternatively you sink down
very deeply. I spent two years discussing this
form of definition for an exhibition with Bayer
AG in Leverkusen, but in the end the formation
of the surface defeated us. Although we were
able to define an area with foam, if for example
ten people stood on it and the distribution
of pressure on the material were too great,
the surface might crack. Ultimately, I began
redefining the material of the surface and
while searching returned to HAL Memory. This
shows how things keep turning full circle and I
landed somewhere in imagination nirvana.MW:We are familiar with the work of Carl
André and his floor pieces. They are 
