TEMPLE OF BECOMING

Works do not begin where they are shown. They start below the threshold – in a stream of memory, chance, material and desire – and only through many translations become something one can enter, touch or perform. The present shows almost only the end of this path: the finished image, the product, the explained message. The TEMPLE OF BECOMING reverses this. It shows becoming itself, stage by stage, simultaneously, in 41 works.

The floor is a black mirror crossed by circling flow lines; from its centre a vortex rises to the oculus. Around it stand 41 shafts in an ascending spiral – each carries a work of the collection, from the MOVING GALLERY of 2001 to the TIME BODY in Weimar. In every shaft seven levels lie on top of each other: the seed as a point cloud, the schema as measuring box and axis cross, the sketch as edge drawing, the simulation as a magenta ghost on an orbit, the model in plaster and, at the top, the thing – the original model with its own animation. A net of concepts links the schemas of neighbours, monoliths descend as a crown, the oculus opens.

The second version reads the same as a score: stages become rings, works become voices, the year of origin becomes height, and a playhead makes each work sound. Both versions, the experience, the lab and the game WERDUNGSWERK are built from the same data – a real-time laboratory in which ideas condense into things and dissolve again.