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De Hondenmepper The installation at CBK 's-Hertogenbosch was inspired by the book: De God Denkbaar Denkbaar de God (The God Thinkable Thinkable the God) W.F. Hermans, 1956. Page 40: Thinkable finds himself in a dog asylum, where he is put to work together with a deaf-mute Eskimo. He must catch the dogs, put them in a small cart and drive them into the gas chamber. Initially this operates in a semi-orderly fashion but, three-quarters of a page later, Thinkable stands screaming in the middle of the space, swinging dogs around his head. The gas has run out and the cart is stuck. The mayhem that follows lasts for four pages. Thinkable's name and the structure of the book is derived from Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The somewhat ostentatious title, the numbering of the propositions (n.1, n.2, n.m.1.2.1, etc. sometimes up til five decimal places) and the inconceivably complicated equations with which Wittgenstein decorates his pages, illustrate a body of thought that is hyper-formal and structured. The freedom with which Hermans responds to his writing is from outer space. Stan Wannet 2009 <-- back |
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De Hondenmepper The installation at CBK 's-Hertogenbosch was inspired by the book: De God Denkbaar Denkbaar de God (The God Thinkable Thinkable the God) W.F. Hermans, 1956. Page 40: Thinkable finds himself in a dog asylum, where he is put to work together with a deaf-mute Eskimo. He must catch the dogs, put them in a small cart and drive them into the gas chamber. Initially this operates in a semi-orderly fashion but, three-quarters of a page later, Thinkable stands screaming in the middle of the space, swinging dogs around his head. The gas has run out and the cart is stuck. The mayhem that follows lasts for four pages. Thinkable's name and the structure of the book is derived from Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The somewhat ostentatious title, the numbering of the propositions (n.1, n.2, n.m.1.2.1, etc. sometimes up til five decimal places) and the inconceivably complicated equations with which Wittgenstein decorates his pages, illustrate a body of thought that is hyper-formal and structured. The freedom with which Hermans responds to his writing is from outer space. Watch on Youtube --> <-- back |