During the whole month of October I will be engaged with a new interdisciplinary project with the working title Empty Times - Empty Space at the Faber Andorra in La Massana, Andorra .
Faber Andorra is an individual residency program supported by the Government of Andorra and Institut Ramon Llull
Empty Times and Empty Spaces
The guiding principle for the implementation of this work project is partly based on the philosophical thoughts and ideas of Ma and Zen, originating from the Far East. I lived and worked in the Far East for a long time, which influenced my artistic concepts.
The Japanese use the term MA to describe the intentional distance created by a brief pause between actions or by the empty space between objects. A distance that is not emptiness or lost time, but rather a special connection. MA can be the silence and emptiness between the notes that create music, the brief pause that emphasizes an action, or the invisible volume for which a bowl was created. It is a spatiotemporal concept that is fundamentally different from the Western view of emptiness, which is geared towards apparent efficiency. In the West, we have neither this word nor a term for this concept.
It was originally planned as a solo project, but then, alongside my own work, I decided to ask four artists from different disciplines in Andorra to collaborate and share their own interpretations of the concepts of "Empty Times" and "Empty Space."
In addition, three workshops are planned: a Social Sculpture Workshop for children (10-11 years old), a classroom art discussion, and a Land Art Workshop for children (6-7 years old).