aggregate is reproduced. The
caption of technical terms and functions on it was
replaced by vocabulary from the history of human
development and an artist's life.The diagram
follows the path of perceptions and informations
that are sucked into the compressor until the gate
pipe behind which it finally comes to artistic
'operation'. On the way there the impressions, that
were shoved-in by 'Neugier' (curiosity), pass
through a series of compression steps which are in
relation to the mental mecahnisms that control and
cencor what is perceived. They are complemented with
virtues and contestations like 'Zweifel (doubt),
"Analyse" (analysis), "Überlegung" (consideration)
and "Widerspruch" (contradiction).
In comparison with the considerably slimmer jet
engine the narrowest spot with the artistic engine
is the money which extremely reduces and at the same
time compresses the influx amount of air/perception
before the actual power expansion in the combustion
chamber through a narrow pathway by the thickness of
the drive shaft which results in the capacity of
production of an artist reaching less than half of
the output of an aircraft engine (90%) - about 43%.
The fuel in the large-dimensioned combustion chamber
is named as 'Suche nach der Lösung für
leidenschaftliche Ungeduld" (search for the solution
for passionate impatience). The true turbine is
relatively tight and concentrates the escaping hot
gases as 'Realitaetsflucht' (flight from reality),
before eventually the results can be confirmed where
still a last instancy - namely the "Moral' (morale)
has to be passed. Only then art can be produced. The
engine thus does not prove itself directly as a
model of art production but of perception mechanism
the psycho-physcial which is connected upstream with
the art production in order to envision its material
and imaginary conditions.
The turbine thus has also become a model for the
energy household of an artis who is engaged
extensively with the coping of the sensations before
one even thinks of the production of an artwork. The
abundance of perceptions and the input from media
are connected upstream with the art production and
influence thus the quantity and quality. After all
also lack of money contributes that inspite of high
input only a small part of the impressions that sank
in are utilizable for the art production. In the
exhibition thus we are dealing with a pre-stage the
passing through of which only puts an artist in a
position to produce an artwork later.
The analogy between art expansion and power
expansion connects the technical and the biological
therefor psycho-physical metabolism. In this way the
model relates conceptually and systematically to the
psychoanalytical 'Trieblehre' (the theory of the
instincts) that pull(s) together the energy balance
of a living being with drive, a connection that was
already named by Sigmund Freud in relation to
machines. In those days primarily flight gadgets as
well as photo and film cameras were named
'Apparat'(apparatus) and thus had the same
terminology like the nervous system or perception
organs in biology.
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This denomination
points out that also Freud's phrasing of death-
and life-instinct as well as of the sensual
activities is in relation to drive and imaging
technology. It is perhaps crucial that it wasn't
possible to localize the human drives like it is
with a technical apparatus. With a human no drives
could be localized in the heart even if it could
be reasonable to see it as an equivalent of a
motor. Conversely engineers tried to concentrate
on reduction of motors because these were in
demand in the pioneer era of development of for
example "Flugapparaten" (aircrafts) because a
power unit of a plane had to be lightweight.8
With increasing diminishment piston engines as
prime mover of vehicles of all kinds prevailed,
until aircrafts disconnected themselves from the
development of piston engines after the
introduction of jet engines in the 1940s and made
supersonic-fast speeds possible. But still the
motor as source of impulsion remained clearly
discriminable from all other units of an
'apparatus' whilst it proved difficult to localize
mental and physical sources of impulses with
humans.
3. Apparatus
Coming from the meaning of the word
'apparatus' identifying a composed machine
and it being used around 1900 for the first
aircrafts, it proves itself nowadays clearly more
hybrid than back then; because it does not only
identify the engine but also the connection that
it has to have in cooperating with a number of
ancillary units in order to fullfill its task.
Today we would be speaking of complexity
especially as the active 'apparatus' within the
social frame has to be added. Only controlling and
the administration makes a certain configuration
or hardware function at all. Thus ministries or
administrations ensure that for example streets
are built and repaired so that any vehicle can
move on the streets as ideally as possible.
Countrywide administration became precondition for
railroad as well as postal systems and
telecommunications to be able to be developed.
They established the technical foundation
for mass traffic and communication in the first
place. Thus it can be asserted that we are dealing
here with a deployment. Insofar the technical
development and the medical understanding of
organisms only made it possible for a dialectic
relation of machines and living beings to
develop.
IV
Aircrafts and projectors
Ensembled machines as
model
Freud denoted the mind with that term because in
that time it was 'state of the art' to grasp
complex organized processes where many instances and
hierarchies work together. As each time is is also
about presentations of movements (emotional movements,
he introduced at the same time the term 'drive'
derived from plant biology that identifies the
interaction
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