Therese Bolliger

Current
       Rewilding
       Thingness in doubt 

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About the work
projects
    Überzeichnen
    The Green of Her
    Simultaneities
    Hybrids
    Four Echoes
    ellipsis

  language
    100 propositions
    Lessness
    Ambit
    Walser Publication

screening pieces
    Oppenheim Pieces
    Walser Microscripts
    blind word mute vision 
    and Aura

works on paper
    (K)EIN VERGLEICH
    (DIS)SIMILARITIES
    Volatile Body/Volatile
    Language 
    Stutter
    Anonymous Gestures
    Commands
    Vocabularies, sight and
    sound
    Vulnerability and Transference
    Dressing hair and wounds

sculpture
    Drawings for Sculpture  [1]  [2]
    Doppelgaenger, Overflow
    Enclosure
    Factory 77

    Fabrications
    Knots
    Furfeathers

Publications

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© 2023 Therese Bolliger.

Knots or Touching Sound, 2009.  Metal screening and thread



Knots or Touching Sound, 2009, Oakville Galleries , ON


The knot constructs reference the theories the French physicist and mathematician Jules Antoine Lissajou (1822 - 1880) developed. His mathematical equations analyzed sound vibrations resulting in “Lissajou Figures” of great beauty and complexity, often recalling knot configurations. The integration of science, sound and physical, visual forms with aesthetic qualities formed the basis for the sculptural knots. The choice of fur for one of the  series, metal mesh for the second, generated a reading invoking the sense of touch, thus the subtitle “ Touching Sound”.