Project: finding the place where art ends

True peace does not come from the mind, it does not come from politics, it does not come from concepts – it only arises where the mind rests, and all concepts cease.

Ok – so what will happen when art ceases; what will arise? To find out, we first need to find the place where Art ends. So far I’m not sure where this is.

I think we need to try a few things, see what happens. And then correct our way.

We could start with the following approaches:

1) Produce non-conceptual non-political non-artistic art.

This will be difficult. All ideas I had so far may still bear some sort of concept…

-         cloths: grey swimming cap, white cloth

-         projects: blindly taking a stone in the night

-         taking stones from one stone pile to another

-         exchanging grains of sand

-         counting grains of sand

-         lost and found – moved and lost. displace random objects and then lose them.

-         naming cats

-         taking pictures of your left knee every morning

-         staring at a wall for a short moment
-    3 lights-running with myself
-    standing in front of speed camera

2) Reverse the current order.

For centuries artists have brought concepts and images through their art to the people. We want to reverse this current order; we will therefore bring non-artistic concepts and images from the people to the artists. Let’s see how this goes.

3) Alltags Art

Art presents what is special in life, art makes you think, react. We will try to get rid of all this; we will try to produce genuine Alltags Art (‘alltag’, german, means everyday, common, without significance), hoping that this ends up not being art at all – and brings us to the place where art ends.

For example, we could record 1 minute of sound at random moments in our day.