DELLE 2

A Dent is a tiny loophole in a System of Beliefs It inevitably starts with an involuntary cut. The very first moment in which the unborn child becomes a human being with its own relationship to the world leaves a scar on our surface – a primal dent (dt. Ur-Delle). This dent in the flesh is the forever closed gateway to selflessness in the literary sense. Byyyeee. You can drink champagne from it, but you can never reconnect with this delicious eternity in which you existed before you had to say ‘I’. The human urge to fit into the Outside into which we are all pushed at birth has always blossomed in wondrous ways. Once born, you can’t just exist. NO NO NO NO, you must be. be like in be·lieve It was no coincidence that the Roman architect Virtruv placed the compass (dt. Zirkel) exactly in the navel of his proband in the year 10 BC to prove that the shapely (dt. wohlgeformt) human being can fit perfectly into a circle and even a square. The very center of man (dt. Mann/Memme/Mensch), the essence of being – seemingly culminates in this small, scarred dent. Furthermore, it was also no coincidence that the Christian original, one and only primal dent bearer Jesus saw himself crucified in that unfavorable, because uncomfortable, position. The Roman splendor for perfection extended to the art of destruction. And finally, it is no coincidence that churches were built in the shape of the cross to commemorate this truly uncomfortable pose in which Jesus was allowed to display his shapely features to the very end. In a Nutshell: If the cross visualizes the perfect form of man (dt. Mann/Memme/Mensch) and churches are built like crosses, are they built like very tall, perfectly shaped people and do believers just crawl back into their mother’s womb when they go to mass? I’m asking for a friend. be like in be·tray 1400 years later (roughly), the pose, which has since been copied millions of times, would illustrate a paradigm shift. At a moment when technological and economic change was sawing away at previous systems of belief, an incredibly good idea got into the air: WHAT IF NOT ONLY GOD COULD DO REALLY KICK-ASS THINGS, BUT ALSO MAN (dt. Mann/Memme/(…)), HIMSELF, BECAUSE HE IS MODELED AFTER HIM AND THEREFORE PRETTY KICK-ASS TOO. Only one small thing had to be separated from man (dt. Mann/Memme/Mensch): nature (dt. widerspenstige Materie). A brief interruption to the text at this point. If you are looking for the artists – Sebastian is probably hiding behind his work, busy dodging his responsibilities as an artistic genius. Ironically, he is very good at notbeing and therefore good at being a contemporary artist. While Clemens sits there searching the internet for an answer to the relationship between man (dt. Mann/Memme/Subjekt) and nature, he is amazingly good at being an explorer of the explored. His objects are very suited to notbeing classic modernist sculpture. They are instead extremely good at being a critique of the social conditions of their production. Thank God we don’t live in the Middle Ages anymore. These two guys would find themselves into a “very uncomfortable” position very soon wink-wink. Thank God we live in a blatantly awesome time in which everyone can flourish and really become anything. Where nothing is as shit as it seems. Is it exhausting to be like God, or how come your muscles cry when you’re in the gym for the fourth time this week? God is a mindset. And Mindset is everything. So, it is be like in be·nchpress.