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http://hdl.handle.net/1942/39794| Title: | Pictogram I | Contributors/Performers: | SCHWARZ, Margaux | Issue Date: | 2022 | Abstract: | This object is the result of exploring the possibility of developing a pictogram to describe how traps work. The idea was not to describe the mechanics of a single kind of trap (deadfall, snare, pit trap, etc.) but to demonstrate the nature of traps in general. The goal was to reduce the process of trapping and being trapped to a matter of a symbol making it accessible and readable outside of written language. | Keywords: | Sculpture;pictogram;trap;art | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/39794 | Link to publication/dataset: | https://www.jessemagee.net/news.html | Discipline: | beeldende kunsten | Research Context: | Pictogram I addresses the relationship of the figure to the trap. It can be shown in three different constellations on the wall or on a flat plane (table). Displayed on a table the work is a game. Visitors played with the objects moving the two elements in relation to one another, sliding them together and experiencing how the figure becomes stuck. Conceptually the work became about “traps under conditions”. The objects work as traps when the person playing with them adheres to the rules of a two-dimensional plane (the table) on which they lay. When this arbitrary rule is ignored, there is no trap. In a three-dimensional space both figure and trap-space can easily be lifted off the table and the trap ceases to exist. To get out of this trap therefore one only needs to realize that there is a third dimension. On the wall there are three options Option 1: the figure hangs on the wall and the trap-space hangs from it. The figure holds the trap-space and keeps it from falling even while the holding elements reside with the trap-space. The figure carries the trap-space. Both are active. Option 2: The trap hangs on the wall and holds the figure both trapping it and keeping it from falling. The trap-space carries the figure and is active while the figure is passive. Option 3: The trap-space hangs on the wall and the figure rests both in it and on it. Both agents are passive as are the trapping elements themselves. The figure sits on the trap-space and so the trap-space bears the figures weight without becoming active. There appears to either be no conflict of interest or a temporary armistice. Presented on the wall we are confronted with the dual use of the term “held” in the sense of being held back and also in the sense of being embraced or protected. The recognition that the same word is used for both activities, one positively and the other negatively connotated, opens a new avenue of reflection on how closely related the two are to each other. | Impact Description: | Pictogram I was shown at the exhibition Tresor in the Shiras Gallery in Valencia, ES. for a period of five weeks. | Related Info: | PXL-MAD Scool of Arts Venus' flower trap |
Category: | AOR | Type: | Artistic/designerly creation |
| Appears in Collections: | Artistic/designerly creations |
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| File | Description | Size | Format | |
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| Pictogram I.jpg | 853.71 kB | JPEG | View/Open | |
| Exhibition Tresor 1.jpg | 2.42 MB | JPEG | View/Open | |
| Exhibition Tresor 2.jpg | 2.56 MB | JPEG | View/Open | |
| Pictogram I wall option 2.jpg | 2.3 MB | JPEG | View/Open | |
| Pictogram I wall option 3.jpg | 345.75 kB | JPEG | View/Open |
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