{"id":20180,"title":"xpo - 2007 - The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience - Ruth Loos - Where objects meet and reorganize themselves in time and space [EN, concept text]","dimensions":"3 p.","date_begin":null,"material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":25,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Hans Theys Archive / Archief Hans Theys","cached_tag_list":"concepttekst","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":7,"permalink":"xpo-2007-the-moss-gathering-tumbleweed-experience-ruth-loos-where-objects-meet-and-reorganize-themselves-in-time-and-space-en-concept-text","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Hans Theys","hide_from_json":true,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Text","nl":"Tekst","fr":"Texte"},"poster_image":null,"poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n__________\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nRuth Loos\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience ●\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n- where objects meet and reorganize themselves in time and space -\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is a debate in the form of a series of artistic interventions. As such, it is incomplete; it writes and rewrites itself. At times, it is very dynamic and then again, very calculated.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nHans Theys is the curator of this artistic debate. Not only for, but also together with his guests at the NICC, he reflects on how to present and display things. His approach is headstrong, playful, colourful and multilayered. Hans Theys is quite an exceptional philosopher; he looks at art from within. Persistent and creative as he is, he not only observes things from a distance or from at eye level, but, literally and figuratively, takes on different perspectives. Because of his view, his subjectivity and his gestures \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; becomes something four-dimensional and spatial in time.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nTheys connects surprising encounters between objects. Sometimes with full force or sometimes little by little, he brings objects into the NICC exhibition space, where they live organically in the way he has arranged them or in the way they organize themselves. By underlining mutual and underlying relations, Theys reveals certain things. In his selection of objects, he chooses those that influence, challenge, affirm or contradict each other; objects that are open-minded, no matter how fragile or how bold they might be.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nAs a periodical constellation of ideas and objects, \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; plays with boundaries. It sets up a transitional zone where boundaries become blurred and realign. Each work penetrates the room and redefines it. The works invade each other\u0026rsquo;s space and together they create a new environment. The Tumbleweed-title rightfully matches the changing reality of Theys\u0026rsquo;s illustrative debate. In this text, five paragraphs plus one, we would like to take a look at each word of the title separately.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is definite; it\u0026rsquo;s not without reason. \u0026lsquo;The\u0026rsquo; denotes a specification, thus making it personal, physical and unique. The definitiveness underlines an outspoken subjective dimension; a dimension that refers to physicality, to the concrete experience of the here and now. \u0026lsquo;The\u0026rsquo; can also signify something abstract. \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; then becomes a concept, a proposition, a possible outline for an actual dialogue. In addition, \u0026lsquo;the\u0026rsquo; can refer to a specific gender: male, female or neutral. If so, the grammatical gender of \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; could best be described as chameleonic.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is characterised by a very specific simplicity. The simplicity of a small evergreen moss plant; a spore plant that sprouts, grows and attaches itself. A rhizoidal simplicity that is complex in its naked directness. The participating words and objects grow and overgrow, without hesitation and in close packs. They cover and discover. They leave spores and weave threads. They attach and detach themselves. Like a carpet with holes in it, they cover the space with a layer of meaning. Each time the carpet is moved or new threads interconnect, we discover different aspects of the space. In its turn, the covered space focuses on each of its individual inhabitants, although they remain closely connected to each other.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is an enthusiastic collection, a gathering of objects, a folding of colours, a montage of rhythms, a shifting of forms, a concentration of materials, an assembly of volumes, a convergence of textures, a cluster of meetings, a confluence of instincts. But it is also an act. \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; connects, disconnects and reconnects the most divergent, artistic attentiveness, concern, fascination, consideration, interest, perceptivity, awareness, care, protection, dedication and commitment.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is repetitive, wild, changeable, flighty but never casual. It breaks away from its roots. As a quantitative mass, it is driven about by the wind. In terms of quality, it causes a literal and poetic dispersion. \u0026lsquo;Tumbleweed\u0026rsquo; is a spherical construction made up of a number of artistic branches. It\u0026rsquo;s a multidimensional figure that moves meaningfully and stops expressively. \u0026lsquo;Tumbleweed\u0026rsquo; disseminates objects in the same way it collects them. Centripetal and centrifugal objects appear as particles spread in different directions. The result of these physical interactions is a unit that changes direction or motion through a number of playful and mild collisions between lengths, widths, heights and depths. The relative positions of the objects and ideas within the space continue to change, until they rest and stand still, before they start to tumble again.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nCan refer to different levels of experiencing: an experience, an occurrence, a happening, an incident, a sense of perception, an adventure, an event, an escapade, an impression, a discovery, a sensation, an idea, an intuition, a suspicion, an exercise, a ceremony, a circumstance, a given, an opportunity, a case, a gesture, a situation, a story, a manifestation, a development, an incident, a festivity. Active participation can lead to an increase of knowledge, skills and sensitivities.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nTumbleweed Spin Off ●\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nA \u0026lsquo;spin-off\u0026rsquo; is a new entity that forms itself by breaking away from of a larger, existing unit. The part that detaches itself becomes a new independent entity. In the context of \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo;, it becomes a sensory intervention in a new space with both old and new artistic input, but, at the same time, it retains the original tumbling movements of objects and ideas and the daring arrangement of the visual elements \u0026ndash; organic, disharmonious and many-voiced. \u0026lsquo;Tumbleweed Spin Off\u0026rsquo; is a visual pilgrimage that is inclusive and receptive in its approach.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nFor Hans Theys and NICC, Museumstraat 35/37, 2000 Antwerp\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nAntwerp, 22 August 2007\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n__________\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nRuth Loos\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience ●\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n-ontmoetingen van objecten die zich herschikken in tijd en ruimte-\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is een debat dat zich veruitwendigt in artistieke lichamelijkheid. Het is onaf. Het schrijft en herschrijft zichzelf. Soms wervelend, dan weer bedachtzaam.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eHans Theys, de curator van dit artistieke debat, stippelt voor en samen met zijn gasten in het NICC uit hoe iets getoond en verteld kan worden. Hij doet dat op een bijzondere wijze - eigenzinnig, jonglerend, kleurrijk en veelgelaagd. Hans Theys is een curieus filosoof die van binnenuit naar de kunst kijkt. Hij is te weerbarstig en te creatief om de dingen van op afstand of van op ooghoogte te bekijken. Hij neemt niet \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;n maar verscheidene perspectieven in, letterlijk en figuurlijk. Zijn blik, zijn subjectiviteit, zijn beweging maakt dat \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; iets vierdimensionaals wordt, ruimtelijk-in-de-tijd.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Theys knoopt verrassende ontmoetingen tussen objecten. In de ontvankelijke tentoonstellingsruimte van het NICC laat hij beelden binnen, stormachtig of druppelsgewijs. Het zijn beelden die hij op organische wijze laat wonen in de constellaties die hij vormt, die zij vormen. Theys stipt iets aan, hij onderlijnt onderlinge en onderliggende relaties. Hij kiest beelden die elkaar be\u0026iuml;nvloeden, uitdagen, bevestigen of tegenspreken; beelden die allen gebaren van welwillendheid, hoe broos of kordaat ze ook zijn.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo;, als tijdruimtelijke constellatie van (denk)beelden, speelt met grenzen. Ze installeert een transitionele zone waarbij grenzen vervagen en zich verleggen. Het werk dringt binnen in de ruimte en herschrijft deze. De werken dringen binnen in elkaars ruimte en samen omschrijven ze een nieuwe omgeving. Omdat de Tumbleweed-titel zo mooi past bij de beweeglijke realiteit van Theys\u0026rsquo; aanschouwelijke debat, zal deze tekst ingaan op elk titelwoord afzonderlijk. U leest nog vijf paragrafen plus \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;n.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;\u003cstrong\u003eThe\u0026nbsp;\u003c/strong\u003eMoss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is bepaald, niet zomaar. \u0026lsquo;The\u0026rsquo; specificeert. Het maakt iets particulier, lijfelijk en uniek. De bepaaldheid onderlijnt een uitgesproken subjectieve dimensie. Een dimensie die refereert aan lichamelijkheid, aan het doorleefde, concrete hier en nu. \u0026lsquo;The\u0026rsquo; kan evenwel ook iets abstracts aanduiden. \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; wordt dan een concept, een voorstel, een mogelijke vorm van tastbaar dialogeren. \u0026lsquo;The\u0026rsquo; kan ook verwijzen naar een bepaaldheid in geslacht: mannelijk, vrouwelijk of onzijdig. Als het dit doet dan zou het grammaticale gender van \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; kameleontisch zijn.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The\u0026nbsp;\u003cstrong\u003eMoss\u0026nbsp;\u003c/strong\u003eGathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; kenmerkt zich door een heel specifieke eenvoud. De eenvoud van een altijd-groen mosplantje, een sporenplantje dat kiemt, groeit en zich hecht. Een rhizo\u0026iuml;de eenvoud, complex in zijn naakte directheid. De deelnemende woorden en beelden groeien en begroeien, zonder aarzelen en in dicht gezelschap. Ze bedekken en ontdekken. Ze laten sporen na en weven draden. Ze hechten en onthechten zich. Als een tapijt met gaten leggen ze een betekenislaag over de ruimte. Als het tapijt zich verlegt of als nieuwe draden zich verknopen, zien we telkens andere aspecten van de ruimte. De beklede ruimte vestigt op haar beurt de aandacht op haar individuele bewoners, niettemin in nauw onderling verband.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss\u0026nbsp;\u003cstrong\u003eGathering\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp;Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is een enthousiaste verzameling, een conclaaf van beelden, een plooisel van kleuren, een montage van ritmes, een beweging van vormen, een concentratie aan materialen, een assemblage van volumes, een convergentie van texturen, een cluster van ontmoetingen, een bijeenkomst van gevoelsmatigheden. Zij is eveneens een handeling. \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; verbindt, ontbindt en herbindt de meest uiteenlopende artistieke aandachtigheid, bekommernis, belangstelling, consideratie, interesse, oplettendheid, opmerkzaamheid, zorg, behartiging, hoede, inzet, toewijding.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering\u0026nbsp;\u003cstrong\u003eTumbleweed\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp;Experience\u0026rsquo; is repetitief, wild, wispelturig, vlinderachtig maar nooit vrijblijvend. Ze rolt weg van haar wortels. Als kwantiteit laat ze zich meevoeren met de wind. Als kwaliteit brengt ze verstrooiing, letterlijk en op po\u0026euml;tische wijze. \u0026lsquo;Tumbleweed\u0026rsquo; is een sferische constructie opgebouwd uit een densiteit van artistieke vertakkingen. Het is een meerdimensionale figuur die betekenisvol beweegt en expressief halthoudt. \u0026lsquo;Tumbleweed\u0026rsquo; verspreidt beelden zoals ze deze verzamelt. Middelpuntzoekende beelden en middelpuntvliedende beelden die als partikels verschijnen in een assortiment van richtingen. Uit de fysische interacties resulteert een geheel dat verandert van richting of beweging doorheen ludieke botsingen en zachte aanvaringen tussen lengtes, breedtes, hoogtes en dieptes. De verandering van de relatieve posities van de objecten en de idee\u0026euml;n in de ruimte continueert, tot ze zich verpozen, zich stilhouden alvorens weer verder te tuimelen.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed\u0026nbsp;\u003cstrong\u003eExperience\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026rsquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eZo je wil en in allerlei gradaties van be- en doorleefdheid: een ervaring, een belevenis, een gebeuren, een ondervinding, een gevoel, een gewaarwording, een avontuur, een evenement, een lotgeval, een indruk, een ontdekking, een sensatie, een idee, een intu\u0026iuml;tie, een vermoeden, een oefening, een plechtigheid, een omstandigheid, een gegeven, een gelegenheid, een casus, een handeling, een toestand, een verhaal, een manifestatie, een ontwikkeling, een incident, een festiviteit.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nEen actieve deelname aan het gebeuren kan leiden tot een vermeerdering van kennis, vaardigheden en gevoeligheden.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nTumbleweed Spin Off ●\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nEen \u0026lsquo;spin off\u0026rsquo; is een nieuwe entiteit gevormd door een afsplitsing van een grotere, reeds bestaande eenheid. Het zich loskoppelende gedeelte ontplooit zich tot een nieuwe zelfstandigheid. In de context van \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; betekent dit een zintuiglijk ingrijpen in een nieuwe ruimte aan de hand van oude en nieuwe artistieke gegevens en met behoud van oorspronkelijke buitelingen van (denk)beelden en uitdagende schikking der visuele delen - organisch, disharmonisch en meerstemmig. \u0026lsquo;Tumbleweed Spin Off\u0026rsquo; is een beeldende pelgrimage die inclusief denkt en zich receptief ori\u0026euml;nteert.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nVoor Hans Theys en het NICC, Museumstraat 35/37, 2000 Antwerpen\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nRuth Loos, Antwerpen, 22 augustus 2007\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n__________\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nRuth Loos\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience ●\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n- where objects meet and reorganize themselves in time and space -\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is a debate in the form of a series of artistic interventions. As such, it is incomplete; it writes and rewrites itself. At times, it is very dynamic and then again, very calculated.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nHans Theys is the curator of this artistic debate. Not only for, but also together with his guests at the NICC, he reflects on how to present and display things. His approach is headstrong, playful, colourful and multilayered. Hans Theys is quite an exceptional philosopher; he looks at art from within. Persistent and creative as he is, he not only observes things from a distance or from at eye level, but, literally and figuratively, takes on different perspectives. Because of his view, his subjectivity and his gestures \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; becomes something four-dimensional and spatial in time.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nTheys connects surprising encounters between objects. Sometimes with full force or sometimes little by little, he brings objects into the NICC exhibition space, where they live organically in the way he has arranged them or in the way they organize themselves. By underlining mutual and underlying relations, Theys reveals certain things. In his selection of objects, he chooses those that influence, challenge, affirm or contradict each other; objects that are open-minded, no matter how fragile or how bold they might be.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nAs a periodical constellation of ideas and objects, \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; plays with boundaries. It sets up a transitional zone where boundaries become blurred and realign. Each work penetrates the room and redefines it. The works invade each other\u0026rsquo;s space and together they create a new environment. The Tumbleweed-title rightfully matches the changing reality of Theys\u0026rsquo;s illustrative debate. In this text, five paragraphs plus one, we would like to take a look at each word of the title separately.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is definite; it\u0026rsquo;s not without reason. \u0026lsquo;The\u0026rsquo; denotes a specification, thus making it personal, physical and unique. The definitiveness underlines an outspoken subjective dimension; a dimension that refers to physicality, to the concrete experience of the here and now. \u0026lsquo;The\u0026rsquo; can also signify something abstract. \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; then becomes a concept, a proposition, a possible outline for an actual dialogue. In addition, \u0026lsquo;the\u0026rsquo; can refer to a specific gender: male, female or neutral. If so, the grammatical gender of \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; could best be described as chameleonic.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is characterised by a very specific simplicity. The simplicity of a small evergreen moss plant; a spore plant that sprouts, grows and attaches itself. A rhizoidal simplicity that is complex in its naked directness. The participating words and objects grow and overgrow, without hesitation and in close packs. They cover and discover. They leave spores and weave threads. They attach and detach themselves. Like a carpet with holes in it, they cover the space with a layer of meaning. Each time the carpet is moved or new threads interconnect, we discover different aspects of the space. In its turn, the covered space focuses on each of its individual inhabitants, although they remain closely connected to each other.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is an enthusiastic collection, a gathering of objects, a folding of colours, a montage of rhythms, a shifting of forms, a concentration of materials, an assembly of volumes, a convergence of textures, a cluster of meetings, a confluence of instincts. But it is also an act. \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; connects, disconnects and reconnects the most divergent, artistic attentiveness, concern, fascination, consideration, interest, perceptivity, awareness, care, protection, dedication and commitment.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is repetitive, wild, changeable, flighty but never casual. It breaks away from its roots. As a quantitative mass, it is driven about by the wind. In terms of quality, it causes a literal and poetic dispersion. \u0026lsquo;Tumbleweed\u0026rsquo; is a spherical construction made up of a number of artistic branches. It\u0026rsquo;s a multidimensional figure that moves meaningfully and stops expressively. \u0026lsquo;Tumbleweed\u0026rsquo; disseminates objects in the same way it collects them. Centripetal and centrifugal objects appear as particles spread in different directions. The result of these physical interactions is a unit that changes direction or motion through a number of playful and mild collisions between lengths, widths, heights and depths. The relative positions of the objects and ideas within the space continue to change, until they rest and stand still, before they start to tumble again.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nCan refer to different levels of experiencing: an experience, an occurrence, a happening, an incident, a sense of perception, an adventure, an event, an escapade, an impression, a discovery, a sensation, an idea, an intuition, a suspicion, an exercise, a ceremony, a circumstance, a given, an opportunity, a case, a gesture, a situation, a story, a manifestation, a development, an incident, a festivity. Active participation can lead to an increase of knowledge, skills and sensitivities.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nTumbleweed Spin Off ●\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nA \u0026lsquo;spin-off\u0026rsquo; is a new entity that forms itself by breaking away from of a larger, existing unit. The part that detaches itself becomes a new independent entity. In the context of \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo;, it becomes a sensory intervention in a new space with both old and new artistic input, but, at the same time, it retains the original tumbling movements of objects and ideas and the daring arrangement of the visual elements \u0026ndash; organic, disharmonious and many-voiced. \u0026lsquo;Tumbleweed Spin Off\u0026rsquo; is a visual pilgrimage that is inclusive and receptive in its approach.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nFor Hans Theys and NICC, Museumstraat 35/37, 2000 Antwerp\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nAntwerp, 22 August 2007\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n__________\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nRuth Loos\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience ●\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n- where objects meet and reorganize themselves in time and space -\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is a debate in the form of a series of artistic interventions. As such, it is incomplete; it writes and rewrites itself. At times, it is very dynamic and then again, very calculated.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nHans Theys is the curator of this artistic debate. Not only for, but also together with his guests at the NICC, he reflects on how to present and display things. His approach is headstrong, playful, colourful and multilayered. Hans Theys is quite an exceptional philosopher; he looks at art from within. Persistent and creative as he is, he not only observes things from a distance or from at eye level, but, literally and figuratively, takes on different perspectives. Because of his view, his subjectivity and his gestures \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; becomes something four-dimensional and spatial in time.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nTheys connects surprising encounters between objects. Sometimes with full force or sometimes little by little, he brings objects into the NICC exhibition space, where they live organically in the way he has arranged them or in the way they organize themselves. By underlining mutual and underlying relations, Theys reveals certain things. In his selection of objects, he chooses those that influence, challenge, affirm or contradict each other; objects that are open-minded, no matter how fragile or how bold they might be.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nAs a periodical constellation of ideas and objects, \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; plays with boundaries. It sets up a transitional zone where boundaries become blurred and realign. Each work penetrates the room and redefines it. The works invade each other\u0026rsquo;s space and together they create a new environment. The Tumbleweed-title rightfully matches the changing reality of Theys\u0026rsquo;s illustrative debate. In this text, five paragraphs plus one, we would like to take a look at each word of the title separately.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is definite; it\u0026rsquo;s not without reason. \u0026lsquo;The\u0026rsquo; denotes a specification, thus making it personal, physical and unique. The definitiveness underlines an outspoken subjective dimension; a dimension that refers to physicality, to the concrete experience of the here and now. \u0026lsquo;The\u0026rsquo; can also signify something abstract. \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; then becomes a concept, a proposition, a possible outline for an actual dialogue. In addition, \u0026lsquo;the\u0026rsquo; can refer to a specific gender: male, female or neutral. If so, the grammatical gender of \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; could best be described as chameleonic.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is characterised by a very specific simplicity. The simplicity of a small evergreen moss plant; a spore plant that sprouts, grows and attaches itself. A rhizoidal simplicity that is complex in its naked directness. The participating words and objects grow and overgrow, without hesitation and in close packs. They cover and discover. They leave spores and weave threads. They attach and detach themselves. Like a carpet with holes in it, they cover the space with a layer of meaning. Each time the carpet is moved or new threads interconnect, we discover different aspects of the space. In its turn, the covered space focuses on each of its individual inhabitants, although they remain closely connected to each other.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is an enthusiastic collection, a gathering of objects, a folding of colours, a montage of rhythms, a shifting of forms, a concentration of materials, an assembly of volumes, a convergence of textures, a cluster of meetings, a confluence of instincts. But it is also an act. \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; connects, disconnects and reconnects the most divergent, artistic attentiveness, concern, fascination, consideration, interest, perceptivity, awareness, care, protection, dedication and commitment.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo; is repetitive, wild, changeable, flighty but never casual. It breaks away from its roots. As a quantitative mass, it is driven about by the wind. In terms of quality, it causes a literal and poetic dispersion. \u0026lsquo;Tumbleweed\u0026rsquo; is a spherical construction made up of a number of artistic branches. It\u0026rsquo;s a multidimensional figure that moves meaningfully and stops expressively. \u0026lsquo;Tumbleweed\u0026rsquo; disseminates objects in the same way it collects them. Centripetal and centrifugal objects appear as particles spread in different directions. The result of these physical interactions is a unit that changes direction or motion through a number of playful and mild collisions between lengths, widths, heights and depths. The relative positions of the objects and ideas within the space continue to change, until they rest and stand still, before they start to tumble again.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nCan refer to different levels of experiencing: an experience, an occurrence, a happening, an incident, a sense of perception, an adventure, an event, an escapade, an impression, a discovery, a sensation, an idea, an intuition, a suspicion, an exercise, a ceremony, a circumstance, a given, an opportunity, a case, a gesture, a situation, a story, a manifestation, a development, an incident, a festivity. Active participation can lead to an increase of knowledge, skills and sensitivities.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nTumbleweed Spin Off ●\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nA \u0026lsquo;spin-off\u0026rsquo; is a new entity that forms itself by breaking away from of a larger, existing unit. The part that detaches itself becomes a new independent entity. In the context of \u0026lsquo;The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience\u0026rsquo;, it becomes a sensory intervention in a new space with both old and new artistic input, but, at the same time, it retains the original tumbling movements of objects and ideas and the daring arrangement of the visual elements \u0026ndash; organic, disharmonious and many-voiced. \u0026lsquo;Tumbleweed Spin Off\u0026rsquo; is a visual pilgrimage that is inclusive and receptive in its approach.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nFor Hans Theys and NICC, Museumstraat 35/37, 2000 Antwerp\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nAntwerp, 22 August 2007\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}