The Experimental Power Station For Trying Out Movement by Ildze Bogana

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Ildze Bogana. Object: The Experimental Power Station For Trying Out Movement, 2024. Brass, found objects. 11 x 6.5 x 12.5 cm. From series: The Somethings. Object and bracelet
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. How can one tell if the thing they see before them is alive or not? Is it moving, does it speak and make expressions? If a story can be told without moving is the story told by a living being? Probably, but not necessarily. Everything, including stories, move together with time, anyway.
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. Many things move in space, but does it mean that all of them are alive? It could be so that the presence of personality is the defininitive indication of life. It could be that this presence is determining the direction of movement. Dreams and frustrations, emotions and experiences power the will of the Something in choosing their own progression. And you can see then the Living Thing change through all this, same as when you suddenly realize your face which you observe in the mirror today is curiously different from the one you saw there a year ago..

Object and bracelet

How can one tell if the thing they see before them is alive or not? Is it moving, does it speak and make expressions? If a story can be told without moving is the story told by a living being? Probably, but not necessarily. Everything, including stories, move together with time, anyway.

Many things move in space, but does it mean that all of them are alive? It could be so that the presence of personality is the defininitive indication of life. It could be that this presence is determining the direction of movement. Dreams and frustrations, emotions and experiences power the will of the Something in choosing their own progression. And you can see then the Living Thing change through all this, same as when you suddenly realize your face which you observe in the mirror today is curiously different from the one you saw there a year ago.