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15.7.-15.10.2024
PETER FISCHLI & DAVID WEISS
Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go)
15.7.-15.10.2024
Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go)
Der Lauf der Dinge counts among the most watched art films in the world
In 1987, the Swiss artist duo Fischli and Weiss received great international attention when they presented their experimental short film Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go) at the documenta 8 exhibition in Kassel.
The film documents a 30-minute long chain reaction with various objects such as car tyres, rubbish bags and liquids in an industrial hall, where fire, water, chemistry and gravity determine the movements of the objects and the continuous progress of the process. The viewer can follow along in a tension-filled and object-slapstick-like unstable set up, which in an entertaining way alleviates the relationship between cause and effect, precision and improbability, or mechanics and aesthetics. The film thus examines, in an uninterrupted narrative of simple but never predictable actions and reactions, the relationship between art, philosophy and natural science.
Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012) count among the most influential Swiss media artists. Since they began their collaboration in 1979, Fischli and Weiss have created a series of iconic video and installation works that focus on the banalities of everyday life. Their humorous artistic universe is filled with questions about human existence and surrounds its big and small dilemmas and uncertainties.
Der Lauf der Dinge counts among the most watched art films in the world.
Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Der Lauf der Dinge, 1987
Video 30 min.
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