All over the place (Insisting)

Lea Martini (47) and Magdalena Meindl (37), together with Alva (9), Anthea (9), Kaja (8), Lilith (10) and Rebekka (9).

Together they create a world somewhere between order and disorder, precision and excess. They count choreographed peas – meticulously, playfully and quite wildly. Rules become movement, movement becomes composition, and the composition is constantly threatened by the urge to let it all fall apart.

“I could stay here forever.” “Yes, imagine never having to leave.” “Order is beauty.” “Mmmm… only to a certain extent. I wouldn’t go that far.” — Rat and Bear, Fischli and Weiss, 2008.

“Let’s design something together: a structure, a system, a composition, a world. Let’s make it as elaborate as possible – this way and no other! We’ll meet over the course of months and years, in the gaps between, in the evenings, early in the morning. And when we get bored, we’ll open the door to chaos and surrender to the intrusion. So that we always have something left to sort out.”