Hare Square

Mustarinda, Hyrynsalmi, Finland

February 12 - February 27, 2023

 

Interspecies collaboration and durational work.

A joke sprung from a silly name. Or a post-anthropocentric Richard Long paraphrase. Or a trans-species collaborative performance. Or a public square for the Lepus polis. Or a gesture of futility nodding at the limits of imposing abstract and idealist logic on the world…

Materials: Baskets filled with hay, barley, aspen, placed in a 8x8m square + accumulation of tracks in the snow.

Duration: 15 days.

Documentation: Framed inkjet print, 90x60cm.

"Perhaps art begins with the animal, at least with the animal that carves out a territory and constructs a house (both are correlative, or even one and the same, in what is called a habitat). The territory-house system transforms a number of organic functions – sexuality, procreation, aggression, feeding. But this transformation does not explain the appearance of the territory and the house; rather it is the other way around: the territory implies the emergence of pure sensory qualities, of sensibilia that cease to be merely functional and become expressive features, making possible a transformation of functions."

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Percept, Affect, Concept