~ / works / thanatos trees for tim pauli2021 / installation
what is happening when we listen to music? what is music? an often repeated answer: music = organized time.
1.1 verba ecclesiastæ, filii david, regis ierusalem. 1.2 vanitas vanitatum, dixit ecclesiastes: vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas. 1.3 quid habet amplius homo de universo labore suo, quo laborat sub sole? 1.4 generatio præterit, et generatio advenit: terra autem in æternum stat. 1.5 oritur sol, et occidit, et ad locum suum revertitur: ibique renascens, 1.6 gyrat per meridiem, et flectitur ad aquilonem: lustrans universa in circuitu pergit spiritus, et in circulos suos revertitur1.
in turkey, people tie pieces of fabric to trees & make wishes. in great britain, people stick coins into trees to cure themselves of an illness. yoko ono invites visitors to make a wish, write it down on paper & tie the paper around a tree branch.
je ne fais rien, c’est entendu. mais je vois les heures passer – ce qui vaut mieux qu’essayer de les remplir2.
if music is time, then watching music can be synonymous with watching time. & watching time: isn’t that synonymous with watching one’s own time; one’s lifetime, which is passing; ones very own life, which is passing?
5m stereo excerpt of 1h loop
sigmund freud linked the greek terms eros with the life force & thanatos with the death drive. the death drive - originally proposed by sabina spielrein - is the assumed energy in the human being to return to non-life, to the state before birth.
’thanatos trees for tim pauli’ at stromspiesser 6
