Ursula Scherrer:The Sink Contractions and Expansion of the Nucleus yes! Descriptions Turned off
Ursula Scherrer writes on the occasion of BANG BANG about the performance «The Sink Contractions and Expansion of the Nucleus yes! Descriptions Turned off» of Bruno Jakob and Hans Witschi on Saturday, 13.08.2022 at Museum Tinguely Basel.
walking in – I look around B is moving around a camera in his handH is sitting on the keyboard his hands moving across the black and white keysa kind of searching which will be explained to me a bit laterleaning out of the wheelchairspecks of sun on the floor, the wallB is going around with the camera in one hand, a paint brush in the otherdoes he realize that there is an audience?three islands of still lives – plastic cups, some note books and cards, a computer, brushes he painting the imaginarypainting in the airtechnical problems with the volumetender soundspainting without paintingdrawing in midairpapers lying aroundthe changing of speakers is also a performancefinally, H addressing us, now we can startand what was before?gestures in mid air or is it a sketchwhite wall space unhinderedmoving around three stationsrelationships of space and object and brush and eye and sounds and movement and notes to other notes and the left hand to the right handcurled fingers finding the soundshis entire body playing the instrumentpre melody as H calls itexercises that are no exercises and yet fingers moving through a systemlooking through the cameraexploring parallel to the fingers searching the noteswhat a profile of a bodycan we see what he is recording?what is seen on the computer screen? It is turned away from meI noticed the little red dot on the little screen of the small camera which tells meB is recordingleft handed turning pagesempty cupsceiling painting in perspective soundscapes
memories crossing intercrossing a red book and the keyboardwhat is he looking forselbstvergessen untranslatably lovingunflinchingly in their own world lost or hiding or just being?being versus doing?being as a state, being in a timeless capsule?two men playing with two hands – one for the rhythm and one for the imaginary, the story, melody, the unseeable with focus wondering aroundin hind sight I am askingdid B hold the camera always in his right hand?
