Bodology,

This project investigates storage space as a spatial question with empirical, cognitive and philosophical implications. It is an exploration into the topics different levels and is characteristic for its methodological positioning.

«All brains work differently. In many ways I feel my brain works backwards. I need material to create material. I need existing situations to create situations. It is a different way of creating than the image of starting with a white paper. The storage space is a symbol of a process based on surrounding oneself in material to create more material. It is a place to put aside, not prioritize and not finish. I have been collecting ideas about storage for six months, and storing it all. I collect things because I think I one day will use it, trying to grasp it, by making the storage become a self-explainable creature. A growing conglomerate of my personality, my way of organizing, my curiosity, my hope, my procrastinations, my way of creating connections, and my attempt to make a system that make it possible to meet the rest of the world through a partial consistent system» Me as a «semi hoarder» and my exhibition was presented as a state of storage and an ongoing organic process. One of my motives was to show the relation between storage and improvisation as a mode of existing and to make storage a condition to manage to act more spontaneously. Our relations to objects and the reciprocal agency of the human-object inter-relation is central here both in practice and in theory (via Arendt, Heidegger etc). My approach ranges from historical research, study trips to investigate different cultural practices, research and a variation of material experimentation. It is grounded in empirical research into historical traditions of storage as well as contemporary shifts in response both to the digitalization of information and changes in building requirements for storage space. The accumulation included a number of concrete, sometimes practical solutions to storage. Some of the work operate as imagined storage methods while others are inventions and models for conceptualizing and thinking itself. The exhibition site was also an innovative staging of question of scale where individual containers and drawers themselves operate as miniaturized spatial situations for exhibition and presentation of questions and ideas.