Postions on plastic

And humandkind.

Hold, freeze and reconstruct.


TV Memories (An American Quilt)

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A gateway from heaven to hell's finest places 

lovely gracious 

progressive paralysis 

in uncoded poetic moments 

 

a link in a loved one's dream

pools 

stuffed with ice cream 

 

pink dappled eyeballs 

may kill zombie hearts

plus, just in case 

turquise diamonds that fill up 

fresh and flesh wounds

and self-laceration 

 

a thousand commitments to super glue

to dive into 

nurtured 

and find a solvent

 

patience made out of velvet 

agonal kitten's sounds 

creature features

and birds on fragile blossoms

 

a suitcase of 

pleasure measures 

purring souls 

puking minds 

 

Save Nemesis and 

probably reproduce her 

 

 

As often as you can. 

Works as part of the show:

Dein Sandwich ist meine Semmel - A Thousand Commitments to Super Glue - with Lily Lake 

mixed media installations

2019, 12-14 contemporary, Vienna

exhibition view: NEWS & COLABS 


Still: "King of Queens"  © CBS
Still: "King of Queens" © CBS

The works of Reverse try to investigate and illustrate trends, short-lived practices, rituals, facial expressions and gesturing, (colloquial) languages, behavioral patterns of (western) civilization, both individual ones and practised in larger extend. 

This refers to the "small things" people do, which are documented and reproduced or fictionally construced via the mass media and futhermore probably may influence real life situations, behavior or public policy.

Harmless things and (constructed) circumstances and situations in everyday lives, that in the future or in another culture will be hard to understand or not be understood at all, perhaps will be forgotten soon or will even be seen as morally reprehensible or as a crime.

For instance, people eat their meals out of plastic boxes or take coffee to go. 

Another example: In American TV shows people can be spotted wearing shoes in their homes, on their couches and on their beds. That is something a lot of people also do in real life (in the U.S.), but at the same time, many other people may find it disgusting.

Of course, these phenomena can not exclude the research of eventual relations to methods  

and (culture) techniques aswell as development and dissemination of traditions, habits, rites, practices passed on for centuries, long-established crafts with much or little or no sense, meaning, love.


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