SCORES OF MATTERS the method of matterhow to grasp the ungraspable space of transitiontelling crumpled storieshow to use objects as storytellersassociations as pathways
the knowledge in betweenthe knowledge of associationshow to listen to the ordinary objectsstories of interrelationabout where to go from the tablewhat is the story between the tampon and the teabag?
We sit on the floor. There are objects lying all around us. From teabag we move to tampon from tampon we jump to cotton and cotton looks like little clouds. Relations are quick, associative and multi-dimensional. Is it possible to preserve the flowing movement of thoughts? The digital scores of matters archive consists of approximately 100 everyday objects, which have appeared in one or several works by the performance artist Eva Meyer-Keller. The selection is subjective and contains mainly ordinary objects. We made up four categories as the main structure of the archive: rooms, weight, colour and form.
Every object belongs to every category but the content, the story of the object changes in relation to it. The pathways through the archive are not constructed by these invented attempts at an order. They are created by a second, more complex and opaque net of interrelations. If the word 'table' is mentioned in one article and you click at it, you will automatically and randomly be routed to one of the other 18 articles where the word table appears. Or the word relatetable. Or the word tablet, tablecloth, unstable. You will never know where you end up if you start using them.
This is so refreshing sitting here and writing down all these pathetic things, that was also something that I deprived myself to do, because I hate reading all this stuff again. / Silver Book, 1998
Everything becomes so defined That in the end there's no definition They do not mean a thing They don't tell a story / The seeming and the meaning
We don't generate the archive because it is generated by it's connections, the interlinks of which we can't control. Every visitor to the archive will generate a new pathway by wandering through it. Nobody decides what comes next. It is about the associations that appear at a certain moment and whether we decide to stick with them or let them go.
Idea / Concept / Text / DevelopmentEva Meyer-KellerIlya NoéEmilia SchlosserConstanze SchellowJules UrbanPhotographyEva Meyer-KellerAdam BlaufarbDesign & DevelopmentLiebermann Kiepe Reddemann Contactpicnic[AT]scores-of-matters.de
