1 gen 1987 anni - Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Der Lauf der Dinge

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(The Way Things Go)

Color video, transferred from 16 mm film
with sound, 30 min.

Fischli and Weiss’s film The Way Things Go (1987) developed out of their work on Equilibres (A Quiet Afternoon) (1984–86). As they repeatedly tried to balance objects for those photographs, the artists became fascinated with states of impending collapse. In 1985 they began to stage scenes of causal activity in an empty warehouse using items like tires, balloons, ladders, and fireworks. Through sheer determination and hours of trial and error, they composed cinematic sequences in which objects careen into one another, light each other on fire, and fly from place to place in an endlessly unraveling chain reaction. In fact, the sense of continual movement is an illusion: the piece comprises nearly two dozen separate shots filmed without sound over a period of two years. Fischli and Weiss masked the transitions by fading between images of white foam or bright explosions and added audio effects in postproduction—part of their sustained effort to remove any evidence of human involvement in the actions. The objects appear to move of their own volition, freed from their usual functions and reveling in the pleasure of their misbehavior.

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/32552

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