Peggy Olislaegers



(this is an intervention)

Open your eyes
describe the place
you are in
in detail.
And get out.
Start moving.
Run to the studio!
Get yourself warmed up.

Sharpen your eyes.
Have a close look at the things you can’t describe.
Look into it.

Train your eyes.
Cherish sidetracks, applaud a turnaround.

Pause

Dare to keep it simple.

KISS

Describe the present movement in detail
and acknowledge that as content.

Pause

Nourish your wondering
awaken your amazement
train your imagination.

Enjoy your personal associations
make fun of them
study them and archive some.

Train your ability to be uncomfortable.

Be silent for at least an hour...
Give yourself permission to think out loud.

Study that which you don’t want to see.
Take it seriously.
Detect personal guidelines.
Meander!

Close your eyes.
Who’s afraid of the dark?
Who’s afraid of mistakes?
Who’s afraid of beauty?

Train your senses.
Find your song lines and create a rhythm.

Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore, I am in training, don't kiss me, self-portrait 1927
Maria Anna Dewes, Fünf kehrende Frauen, 1989
Louise de Bourgeois, Woman Suspended
Jenny Holzer
Louise de Bourgeois, Ear
Collier Schorr
Useless Inventions
Opéra national du Rhin, La Filature, Scène nationale, 2018
Barbara Hepworth
Jenny Holzer, I breathe, San Diego 2007
‘Lipstick guide’, image in book of 101 useless Japanese inventions
Pietro Spagnolo, A proposal for tender for the decoration of offices in Trentino, Italy
Peggy Olislaegers, Sofie Knijff 2017
Maria Anna Dewes, Fünf Beinpaare 1997, foto Nathalie Bell, Düsseldorf
Ute Klein “Resonanzgeflechte", 2009

Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore, I am in training, don't kiss me, self-portrait 1927
Maria Anna Dewes, Fünf kehrende Frauen, 1989
Louise de Bourgeois, Woman Suspended
Jenny Holzer
Louise de Bourgeois, Ear
Collier Schorr
Useless Inventions
Opéra national du Rhin, La Filature, Scène nationale, 2018
Barbara Hepworth
Jenny Holzer, I breathe, San Diego 2007
‘Lipstick guide’, image in book of 101 useless Japanese inventions
Pietro Spagnolo, A proposal for tender for the decoration of offices in Trentino, Italy
Peggy Olislaegers, Sofie Knijff 2017
Maria Anna Dewes, Fünf Beinpaare 1997, foto Nathalie Bell, Düsseldorf
Ute Klein “Resonanzgeflechte", 2009