Therese Bolliger

Current
       Rewilding
       Thingness in doubt 

Bio
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

Acknowledgements

Contact

© 2023 Therese Bolliger.

Volatile Body/Volatile Language, Cold City, Toronto and studio Silvia Baechli and Eric Hattan, Basel, Switzerland 1997, ARCO Madrid,  Cutting Edge, 1998




Volatile Body / Volatile Language represents an attempt to rethink the body beyond the mind/body dualism of Western culture, and a wish to integrate the mind – the site of consciousness and language - within a multifaceted, transparent body whose boundaries are shifting as the insides have become accessible through new technologies. Body and language, two aspects central to the construction of identity, are both represented as multivalent and ambiguous, an acknowledgement that neither are ever stable or complete. Words pointing to this instability are placed next to images of  body parts and representations of illnesses which might endanger both body and mind. The horrific thus appears  in the guise of beauty, the visually seductive turning out to be threatening.