2021
Der er 100000000000000000000000000000000000 flere døde end levende er et udkast til et monument, der tænkes udført som et mindesmærke på en fælles urnegrav. Monumentet kan opføres i meget stor skala, eller det kan udføres i en meget lille skala. Med den patafysiske spiral som grundmotiv, yderligere dannende et spørgsmålstegn, når det ses fra oven, er monumentet udformet som en opadsnoende spiral, som man, hvis monumentet udføres i stor skala, vil kunne bestige. Under opstigningen vil man kunne læse den i spiralens sider indhuggede tekst: Der er 100000000000000000000000000000000000 flere døde end levende.
Monumentet kan således siges, at være et kollektivt minde om det uendelige antal mennesker, der slægtled efter slægtled, har trådt deres gang på jorden, og således skabt det fundament som efterfølgende slægter står på.
Monumentets inskription Der er 100000000000000000000000000000000000 flere døde end levende stammer fra et nummer af det kulturradikale tidsskrift Kritisk Revy (red.: Poul Henningsen, Thorkild Henningsen, Edvard Heiberg, Otto Gelsted, Hans Kirk et al.) der udkom i årene 1929-28; som et gennemgående element i tidsskriftet ses en række redaktionelle sentenser, aforismer, der løber gennem tidsskriftets sider, fx. “Dem der bygger huse til andre, skulle tvinges til selv at bo i dem”. “Kun Ligkisten er trangere end Etagelejligheden” og “Byplanlægning er anvendt Socialisme”. Det er altså et kollektivt redaktionelt udsagn, der her er plukket fra et næsten hundrede år gammelt tidsskrift.
Ikke desto mindre er det i sin enkle, og måske lidt banale bon mot mæssighed, en uomgængelig sandhed, som måske er det nærmeste, man blandt de levende vil kunne blive enige om; at de døde trods alt er de fleste.
Udover at monument kan opføres i forskellige skalaer, kan monumentet også udføres i forskellige materialer; fx. forskellige former for marmor; grå, hvid, grøn el. rød. Granit; rød, sort el. grå. Sandsten. Jord. Beton eller bronze.
There are 100000000000000000000000000000000000 more dead humans than living ones is a sketch for a monument, that can be raised as a memorial on a common urn grave in a very large scale – or in a much smaller scale. By using the pataphysical spiral as a central motif, when seen from above also forming a question mark, the monument is shaped as a raising spiral, and if the monument is going be realized in a very large scale, it will be possible to ascend it while reading the engraved sentence: There are 100000000000000000000000000000000000 more dead humans than living ones.
In this way the monument can be seen as a collective memorial on the infinite number of humans, who in generation after generation, has been walking on this Earth, shaping the fundament on which following generations stands.
The monuments inscription There are 100000000000000000000000000000000000 more dead humans than living ones stems from the Danish magazine Kritisk Revy (Critical Revue), a central voice in the cultural radicalism movement in Denmark, (ed. Poul Henningsen, Thorkild Henningsen, Edvard Heiberg, Otto Gelsted, Hans Kirk et al.) published 1926-28. As a central element in the magazine small aphoristic sentences run through the pages, e.g. “Those who build houses for other people, should be forced to live in them themselves”; “Only the coffin is more cramped than the typical residential apartment “ and “Urban planning is utilized socialism”. This means that an editorial statement from a nearly one hundred year old magazine is being reused and revived in the monument.
In spite of the statement’s simple and slightly bon-mot-like banality it is nevertheless an unavoidable truth, and perhaps the closest we get to something we living humans can agree on; that the dead are outnumbering the living.
Besides the fact that the monument can be realized in different scales, it is also possible to use different materials, e.g. Marble ( grey, white, green or red), granite (red, black or grey), sandstone, soil, concrete or bronze.
Gravmonumenter
Kunsthal Aarhus
Monumentet kan således siges, at være et kollektivt minde om det uendelige antal mennesker, der slægtled efter slægtled, har trådt deres gang på jorden, og således skabt det fundament som efterfølgende slægter står på.
Monumentets inskription Der er 100000000000000000000000000000000000 flere døde end levende stammer fra et nummer af det kulturradikale tidsskrift Kritisk Revy (red.: Poul Henningsen, Thorkild Henningsen, Edvard Heiberg, Otto Gelsted, Hans Kirk et al.) der udkom i årene 1929-28; som et gennemgående element i tidsskriftet ses en række redaktionelle sentenser, aforismer, der løber gennem tidsskriftets sider, fx. “Dem der bygger huse til andre, skulle tvinges til selv at bo i dem”. “Kun Ligkisten er trangere end Etagelejligheden” og “Byplanlægning er anvendt Socialisme”. Det er altså et kollektivt redaktionelt udsagn, der her er plukket fra et næsten hundrede år gammelt tidsskrift.
Ikke desto mindre er det i sin enkle, og måske lidt banale bon mot mæssighed, en uomgængelig sandhed, som måske er det nærmeste, man blandt de levende vil kunne blive enige om; at de døde trods alt er de fleste.
Udover at monument kan opføres i forskellige skalaer, kan monumentet også udføres i forskellige materialer; fx. forskellige former for marmor; grå, hvid, grøn el. rød. Granit; rød, sort el. grå. Sandsten. Jord. Beton eller bronze.
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There are 100000000000000000000000000000000000 more dead humans than living ones is a sketch for a monument, that can be raised as a memorial on a common urn grave in a very large scale – or in a much smaller scale. By using the pataphysical spiral as a central motif, when seen from above also forming a question mark, the monument is shaped as a raising spiral, and if the monument is going be realized in a very large scale, it will be possible to ascend it while reading the engraved sentence: There are 100000000000000000000000000000000000 more dead humans than living ones.
In this way the monument can be seen as a collective memorial on the infinite number of humans, who in generation after generation, has been walking on this Earth, shaping the fundament on which following generations stands.
The monuments inscription There are 100000000000000000000000000000000000 more dead humans than living ones stems from the Danish magazine Kritisk Revy (Critical Revue), a central voice in the cultural radicalism movement in Denmark, (ed. Poul Henningsen, Thorkild Henningsen, Edvard Heiberg, Otto Gelsted, Hans Kirk et al.) published 1926-28. As a central element in the magazine small aphoristic sentences run through the pages, e.g. “Those who build houses for other people, should be forced to live in them themselves”; “Only the coffin is more cramped than the typical residential apartment “ and “Urban planning is utilized socialism”. This means that an editorial statement from a nearly one hundred year old magazine is being reused and revived in the monument.
In spite of the statement’s simple and slightly bon-mot-like banality it is nevertheless an unavoidable truth, and perhaps the closest we get to something we living humans can agree on; that the dead are outnumbering the living.
Besides the fact that the monument can be realized in different scales, it is also possible to use different materials, e.g. Marble ( grey, white, green or red), granite (red, black or grey), sandstone, soil, concrete or bronze.
Gravmonumenter
Kunsthal Aarhus
21.04. - 09.05. 2021
Grave Monuments
Art Sonje Center
13.07. - 22. 08. 2021
