Avhandling / Av_handling (Dissertation / Through_action)

For Essaying Performative Constructions, Malin Arnell, has created a gigantic architectonic scaffolding. On the day of the opening, on the lawn outside the gallery, she together with Clara López Menéndez with the help of audience will erect an accessible five-meter-high wooden tower made from pre-fab triangular modules: a mixture of jungle gym, viewing platform, perch, and watchtower. The construction will be disassembled on the following day and rebuilt in altered form in the exhibition space. In Arnell’s installation, the basic form of the triangle is associated with the modular construction of Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Domes, but also with symbols such as the pink triangle the Nazis used to identify gay men or the triangles in pentagrams. At the same time, Arnell’s work also incorporates outdoor and indoor space, concentrating not on the finished work of art, but on the process of installment and disassembly, whereby the built construction and the construction of commonality become inseparable.

Essaying Performative Constructions (2011) Installation, SEPTEMBER, Berlin