Jonnson/Aguirre - Where are we going? Waterboxes

Jonnson/Aguirre
Where are we going?
waterboxes

The idea was to put something in the water
that would be so odd that you must stop for
a while wondering what is that.
When you work outside you have a completly
different room to dismantel, first there is the
large scale of the outside, then there is all
the things already there to be understood or
neglected...
Almost everything that we buy comes in a
box, packed in - packed up. This work deals
with questions around our fast moving,
producing, running society. So to put it as
simple as possible, where are we going?

Where are we going?

It was a great experience working together with people that
have almost no contact to art. Different questions was asked
and different solutions was made, not bad only different. And
what really happend was that we learned alot from each other.
There was much laughing and many anecdots were told. In the
end we felt that everybody was proud of the result and one of
the great moments was when we put the boxes into the water.

Since the last five years we’ve added the box into our
work, turning them on the head, putting light or sounds
inside, stacking them togheter into landscapes or as single
pieces, for us the box is like a sign of our time? Almost
everything we use, own has been in a box, food, furniture,
clothes and more. We are somehow the boxed era,
and not to be forgotten, -everybody has there own box,
-TV, -computer, -palm or,-cellphone. These instruments
makes us travel through space and time in a new way, giving
us access information, connecting us up with friends
or sites that brings us away from here and now. So the
question is, were are we going?
And don’t we all have one or more unpacked boxes from
our past, either as emotional or physical goods that
change our minds the moment they’ll open, sometimes
it’s enough just seeing them or being reminded of their
existence… so where can we hide?

Jonnson/Aguirre
Where are we going
waterboxes / 2008
Artist: Jonnson/Aguirre
Object: Where are you going?
Technique: Floating sculpture formation
Size:
Each 240x120x240
Date: 2008
Material: wood, boards, inkjet-prints, plastic, metal
Object description:
Three enlarged ”paperboxes” made to float on the water. Each box
only has one ankarpoint wich allows it to move due to the wind
and the water current. The images are taken from a photoserie
that talks about comming closer to situations and feelings.

Prod. Sheet JA3/08
this is a grasshopper project
”Where are you going” was realised for the Örebro
OpenART festival 2008. The boxes will move around,
change position due to the wind and the water current.
contact: Jonnson/Aguirre
+46 -731 -560019 mail: jonnson-aguirre@web.de