Yesterday, one half of our favorite artists’ duo has died of cancer.
We’d like to celebrate him posting (again) the work for which Fischli/Weiss are best known: the 1987 “Der Lauf Der Dinge” (The Way Things Go), a piece centered on an almost infinite chain reaction of objects.
A post apocaliptic industrial environment is the set for physical and chemical interactions between bare objects. The dadaist piece is able to elicit laughter (echoing the Rube Goldberg machinery so frequently used as absurdly complex contraptions in the Road Runner cartoons), while offering a sober representation of the world, of its technological intricacies and its precarious condition.
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