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<strong>Days</strong>-<strong>IN</strong>-<strong>Beatween</strong><br />
Aguirre & Jonnson<br />
sketchbook #2
<strong>Days</strong>-<strong>IN</strong>-<strong>Beatween</strong><br />
Aguirre & Jonnson<br />
sketchbook #2
Not knowing is maybe not the solution to everything Cage used to<br />
reason, but it’s so much bigger than me.<br />
Being in the process of something can be described as organizing<br />
chaos - which can detach energy and creativity. To become the<br />
explorer beetween daily routines and the big questions can<br />
somehow be a cool feeling…
What we want to express or push with our work<br />
should be contained in each work, or in the experience<br />
of the work. A text about the process or how it came to<br />
be, a story is an optional door opener.<br />
The idea or our investigations should be so much visible<br />
that further academic explanations is for others to make.<br />
All our actions, that later forms our work is from our zigzag<br />
bounces with life. It all comes out of our collitions, our<br />
conversations our missinterpretations, our missatakes.<br />
We like to find more questions then answers in our work,<br />
maybe because we feel the importance of not taking situations<br />
for granted. It’s more or less all about communication,<br />
- how to get your message across.
The inspiration has always been in the<br />
unsertain, in the land between the shores<br />
where the beauty of not knowing speaks,<br />
but the urge to find out is bigger...
make time
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M<strong>IN</strong>Dwash
all small little things that keep’s everything
To find a new connection between the layers is far more bigger<br />
then our own minds, it’s more fun to find, discover then to try<br />
bursting something new out of your brain. Chance operations<br />
and cut up techniques are great ways of letting the greater forces<br />
speak through your hands, like the letter of the famous composer<br />
that was not allowed to be open until 50 years after his death,<br />
where he simply wrote ”I did not write a single note, it was all<br />
transmitted through my hands”.
UP_SIDE_DOWN<br />
UP_SIDE_DOWN
work + passion
etween the idea<br />
and the reality<br />
between the motion<br />
and the act<br />
falls the shadow<br />
T.S.Eliot
the impossible is not the things, or the do - no the impossible is in the<br />
mind where our borders tells us to stop, this is where we get stuck
ho_mage
In a world where violence and the underlying risks have become<br />
routine questions, we look at the fragility of life with all its opportunities<br />
and possibilities, giving priority to feelings and emotions.<br />
Both of us have a fairly large cultural background and broad<br />
experience of different cultures and different countries; we belong<br />
to a new variety that should really be termed “world citizens”.<br />
The wish to enhance the value of the everyday, literature, poetry<br />
and music are the inspirational topics of our work. We were looking<br />
for poetry in life, being able to cheer for those little moments that<br />
life consists of, yet are mostly ignored. We do not feel stuck in the<br />
labyrinth everyday; we started caring about our attitudes towards<br />
ourselves or in relation to our environment.<br />
At the beginning we work with collage which consists of humorous<br />
depictions of our behaviour, our emotions and our state of mind,<br />
a rediscovery, our tool being simply a positive mental attitude.<br />
Does this sound simplistic? That doesn’t mean it was easy.<br />
To acquire the proper mindset takes time but, once we had done<br />
so, it was like coming out of a dark tunnel into bright light.<br />
We feel this attitude in our work with warm and bright colours.<br />
We like to play with language and its power, provide a push to the<br />
viewer so they can make their own universe. In the process of our<br />
work, our attitude towards ourselves has become much more free,<br />
open and tolerant. Our study became our playground.
Then on one fine summer day, a significant event occurred in our<br />
studio: a large green Grasshopper suddenly appeared there. This<br />
Grasshopper gave us a new source of inspiration and we tried to<br />
find out more information about him. We learned something very<br />
special, namely the various possibilities he has available for<br />
immediate action: he can jump, fly, walk and make sounds. He<br />
uses all of these qualities to move on in life.<br />
The grasshopper image became a metaphor, a symbol of attitude,<br />
an attitude to succeed in the everyday conflicts of life, significant<br />
or trivial. This graphic element is the common theme in our work;<br />
he is there to remind us about our attitude to our own reflection.<br />
We adopt the attitude of the Grasshopper whenever we feel trapped<br />
and unable to change focus, enabling us to use our diverse mental<br />
attitudes.<br />
He has become the symbol that identifies us.
make it work
jump your shadow
Being an artist is like being a box, you spend your early<br />
years taking everything out of the box, examine each<br />
different piece and play with all possibilities you’ll find<br />
In the later more formative years you examine more<br />
carefully, give more value to some of the things you<br />
have found in your box, this then becomes your work<br />
Then when you’re a mature artist you hold on devotedly<br />
to your personal pieces and arrangements that you<br />
unfolded out of the box; this later becomes your legacy<br />
Then when you’re old and finally die, someone will<br />
come and gather all your stuff and put it into a box<br />
verbally after Stuart Morgan
wwww<br />
No answers but lots of questions<br />
JonnsonAguirre is a duo based in Orebro, Sweden and Bonn/Colonge, Germany. They have collaborated in various<br />
projects over the years, Giovanna Aguirre and Lars Jonnson have created several groups of works: Watersongs,<br />
UMCS (Undeveloped Mobile Communication Survivors), Grasshopper, and recently ART-Oprenum Systems (ART:OS).<br />
Each designed as an open system in which small groups of works, series and individual pieces has a different weight<br />
within the choice of materials and the layers of thoughts which in the end produces its own dynamic. Other<br />
approaches may initiate - and set off, create more ideas, like the grasshoppers which is more a mental state then a<br />
project that rubs off into different spin-off ’s like the later environmental works, Dissolving self, Short stories, Where<br />
are we going and Best Before-Open Studio to mention a few.<br />
JonnsonAguirre’s rich facets of forms, materials and contents proves to be both playful and cryptic within the reations<br />
on the everyday life which shapes so much of the human perception and actions in the tension especially between<br />
nature and technology. Another equally central reason for both Aguirre and Jonnson is ’energy’ as a condition for<br />
life. Energy manifests itself essentially in the processes of communication. Unilaterally reduced in the Western world<br />
to it’s technological components that has bosted the industrial explosion of equipment for communication and<br />
blowned away our sense for reality long ago.<br />
With wit and humor Jonnson and Aguirre move co-products and incalculable consequences into consciousness and<br />
evakes therebye questions about the limits of human life in their work, no answers but lots of questions. Materials<br />
are chosen in close connection with the sustained content of the process. Usually they set up a new order, interaction<br />
between things which irritates us in the usual way of seeing and disturbs our usual way of logical thinking.<br />
They take use of traditional techniques as well as media, combinding photo (Jonnson) and sculpture (Aguirre) with<br />
painting, live printing, screen, sounds and video which are united into different bodies of work. Critical contents are<br />
set into perfection through combinations which gives a bold dynamic. A co-operation based on principles of dialogue;<br />
-in the end it doesn’t matter who has done what, ”the work itself is so much bigger than our selves, and this is the<br />
magic that keeps us going”.<br />
Dr. Susannah Cremer-Bermbach
enjoy more
this that and everything
it’s<br />
time<br />
2<br />
get<br />
up,<br />
you<br />
exist<br />
this<br />
very<br />
moment<br />
-solet<br />
your<br />
heart<br />
breathe<br />
in<br />
joy
a frame is not a frame is not a frame
Our intentions has been to<br />
make questions around the<br />
possibilities that exists within<br />
two adverse systems
waterfall<br />
jump over the box<br />
picture storm
<strong>Days</strong>-<strong>IN</strong>-<strong>Beatween</strong><br />
Aguirre & Jonnson<br />
sketchbook #2<br />
We learned something very special, namely the<br />
various possibilities the grasshopper has avilable<br />
for immediate action: he can jump, fly, walk and<br />
make sounds.<br />
He uses all of these qualities to move on in life.<br />
The grasshopper image became a methaphor, a<br />
symbol of attitude, an attitude to succed in the<br />
everyday conflicts of life, significant or trivial.