TheStore: The Construct of a Life Package. Proposal for Arhus Kunstbygning 2011.
The exhibition space is piled with boxes, containing (fragments of) works of art, gathered around a wooden framework. The visitor is invited to fill up the framework with
TINE WILDE P.O. Box 16618 1001 RC Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31.61.089.4126 Email: message@tinewilde.com www.tinewilde.com
Unrealized project TheStore
Tine Wilde, `TheStore: The Construct of a Life Package’. Proposal Århus Kunstbygning 2011. ©Tine Wilde c/o Pictoright, Amsterdam. Courtesy of the artist.
The exhibition space is piled with boxes, containing (fragments of) works of art, gathered around a wooden framework. The visitor is invited to fill up the framework with what is stored in the boxes and transform the space into his or her very own Life Package.
The project is based on two suppositions. First, there is the claim that every human being wants to get to know something about oneself in order to assign meaning to oneself and the world. Secondly, that art is able to help when we assume that the aim of art is to enrich the world and ourselves. As a result, the aim of installation TheStore is to offer an adventurous inquiry into self-knowledge through art, addressing questions concerning identity and ownership.
`TheStore' refers to Oldenburg’s shop as a starting point for installation art. It combines an active participation of the audience with a quest for self-knowledge. On a different level TheStore refers to the piling away (to store/storage) of the parts of installations, which could be re-used time and again.
The project was cancelled due to practical constraints: how could all visitors be given the opportunity to construct one’s own Life Package? What if a work of art gets dirty or damaged? Or stolen? Impossible!!
About the artist
Tine Wilde (1955, Nijmegen) studied autonomous art at the academy of Fine Arts in Enschede and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. In November 2008 she obtained a doctorate from the same university for a multidisciplinary project in philosophy and installation art. Her artistic output has been on view in galleries and institutions at home and abroad. Work is included in collections of ABP Heerlen, Goldsmiths, MoMA New York, Tate London, University of Amsterdam, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH), along with private collections. She writes articles on art and philosophy and delivers lectures and Master classes on a regular basis.
TheStore: The Construct of a Life Package. Proposal for Arhus Kunstbygning 2011.
The exhibition space is piled with boxes, containing (fragments of) works of art, gathered around a wooden framework. The visitor is invited to fill up the framework with
TINE WILDE P.O. Box 16618 1001 RC Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31.61.089.4126 Email: message@tinewilde.com www.tinewilde.com
Unrealized project TheStore
Tine Wilde, `TheStore: The Construct of a Life Package’. Proposal Århus Kunstbygning 2011. ©Tine Wilde c/o Pictoright, Amsterdam. Courtesy of the artist.
The exhibition space is piled with boxes, containing (fragments of) works of art, gathered around a wooden framework. The visitor is invited to fill up the framework with what is stored in the boxes and transform the space into his or her very own Life Package.
The project is based on two suppositions. First, there is the claim that every human being wants to get to know something about oneself in order to assign meaning to oneself and the world. Secondly, that art is able to help when we assume that the aim of art is to enrich the world and ourselves. As a result, the aim of installation TheStore is to offer an adventurous inquiry into self-knowledge through art, addressing questions concerning identity and ownership.
`TheStore' refers to Oldenburg’s shop as a starting point for installation art. It combines an active participation of the audience with a quest for self-knowledge. On a different level TheStore refers to the piling away (to store/storage) of the parts of installations, which could be re-used time and again.
The project was cancelled due to practical constraints: how could all visitors be given the opportunity to construct one’s own Life Package? What if a work of art gets dirty or damaged? Or stolen? Impossible!!
About the artist
Tine Wilde (1955, Nijmegen) studied autonomous art at the academy of Fine Arts in Enschede and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. In November 2008 she obtained a doctorate from the same university for a multidisciplinary project in philosophy and installation art. Her artistic output has been on view in galleries and institutions at home and abroad. Work is included in collections of ABP Heerlen, Goldsmiths, MoMA New York, Tate London, University of Amsterdam, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH), along with private collections. She writes articles on art and philosophy and delivers lectures and Master classes on a regular basis.