Christian Thomsen at Dharma Initiatives

Christian Thomsen 
Episode 3: Bird Song

Air Date 06.06.2020 03:33 a.m. 

on dharmainitiatives.net

Dharma Initiatives
Vogelsang, Germany

“Thaumazein Tablet I”; Resin, UV Print on Aluminium, 2020
“Thaumazein Tablet II”; Resin, UV Print on Aluminium, 2020

 “Thaumazein Tablet III”; Resin, UV Print on Aluminium, 2020
Site-specific intervention, acrylic spray, 2020
“Activated Portal (Athanor)”; Inflatable Plastic, aerosol, acrylic, 2020
“A Parafutic Event”; Acrylic, aerosol, Ink on canvas; ink jet print image transfer on wax candles, 2020 
 Installation view
 “When You Really Miss”; Acrylic, aerosol,Ink on canvas
“Danke Guido Van Der Werve”; Wax pencil on paper, found documents, wax candle, 2020
Installation view 
“Travel and reflection”; Indian ink on canvas, 2020 
“Forest Nymphs”; Oil on canvas, 2020 
“Danke Guido Van Der Werve”; Wax pencil on paper, found documents, wax candle, 2020
Installation view 
Untitled, Watercolour on paper, 2019 
 Untitled, Watercolour on paper, 2019
 Installation view
 “Anima / Tomb raider”; Indian ink on canvas, 2020
 Installation view
Installation view 
“When You Wait”; Inkjet image transfer on wax candle, 2020 
Film still, 3D Animation by Emir Karyo & Jan Wojda
 Film still, 3D Animation by Emir Karyo & Jan Wojda
 Film still, 3D Animation by Emir Karyo & Jan Wojda
Poster by Don Elektro, Picture by Anca Barjovanu

All images courtesy of the artists and Dharma Initiatives

“ I find it irksome to give a detailed,      consecutive account of my wanderings inside that cavernous,                                   aeon-dead honeycomb of primal masonry. 
One hears the rustling of wind in        the leaves,
          
forgotten bells sounding, their origin or corporeality impossible to pinpoint and further concealed by the                   piercing notes made          by the hidden birds.

The idea that learners enter into a liminal state in their attempts to grasp certain concepts in their subjects, presents a powerful way       of remembering and learning, involving identity shifts which can                         entail troublesome, unsafe journeys.

(he shortly found this process to be dysfunctional)

Peering through the impenetrable woods, I found transparent glimpses which revealed submerged            structures, tightly shuttered by the ground, for the first times in many ages, the face echoed the tread of human feet, lingering       in a liminal state, an unstable space in which one may oscillate between old and emergent understandings.

boosted in the middle of the woods – stranded,

subsequently gaining the impression that this place had been deliberately closed and deserted, rather                than overwhelmed by some sudden calamity or by gradual decay.
 Image-leaking is permissive- investigate & document;  an inanimate gatekeeper says.

                       A glacial gust of air came from its’ aperture,
the waves didn’t even have to speak with it, they just controlled his pathway from afar “


Text by Dharma Initiatives