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When I first started looking at his work it all went a bit over my head as his work is quite politically heavy. I percivered though just concentrating on the images that interested me. As part of my project at the moment I have been working with ice, and I came across some of Haachs work which was dealing with ice and water. Pieces such as ‘Rain Tower’, ‘Welle’ and ‘Condensation Cube’ were quite interesting as they were three-dimensional works made of acrylic plastic but he thought of them as neither simple pictorial constructs in space nor sculptures, it was more about them being transparent ‘event containers’. He wanted the viewer to be able to touch them removing the idea of untouchable artworks. In one of his written pieces I think I identified with this most out of all his pieces. In a sense it is similar to Richard Long and his concept of ‘ Concrete Poetry’ his passage is talking about making something and how it is specific to its environment which I think really helped me to get a hold of my work and how what I have been trying to do is in a sense time based art.
…make something which experiences, reacts to its environment, changes, is nonstable…
…make something indeterminate, which always looks different, the shape of which cannot be predicted precisely…
…make something which cannot ‘perform’ without the assistance of its environment…
..make something which reacts to light and temperature changes, is subject to air currents and depends, in its functioning, on the forces of gravity…
…make something which the the ’spectator’ handles, with which he plays, and thus animates it…
…make something which lives in time and makes the ’spectator’ experience time…
…articulate something Natural…
Hans Haacke
Untitled Statement 1965
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greece is all over now which is kinda weird, dont really no what to do with myself now. finding it hard to get back into college work because ive not really been thinking about it for so long but just need to keep at it. should be getting a new brief soon which is always quite exciting.
