Peter Ablinger:
Weiss/Weisslich 19
Hand hinters Ohr halten/wegnehmen,
"für Sven Åke Johansson" (1995)
move hands behind ears/remove
Hand hinters Ohr halten/wegnehmen (drawing: Peter Ablinger)
To move hands behind our ears changes our acoustic orientation. The small difference between hands behind our ears and hands removed equals a change of presence, a tiny difference in our way of being here. This difference is related to a change from one room to another (Weiss / Weisslich 15), a change of acoustic ambience (Weiss / Weisslich 16), or to listening to the same actual reality with or without headphone in Weiss / Weisslich 36. Weiss/Weisslich 19 is another example of a disappearing though determinant difference: the difference of being here and being aware of being here.
(English note edited by Andrew Smith)
> slide show: pictures of Sven Åke Johansson performing Weiss / Weisslich 19
see also:
> Hinweistücke / reference pieces, pieces which exist only in their title; one can execute or visit, do or think them
>
Weiss / Weisslich 25, mouth, eyes, ears shut
>
Rahmung / framing, and other manipulations of the ear
> Weiss / Weisslich 15, 5 rooms, loudspeakers, coloured silence on the colours a,o,u,e,i
> Other Transition Pieces