Ode de Kort at SpazioA, Pistoia

Artist(s): Ode de Kort
Art space: SpazioA
Address: Via Amati 13, Pistoia 51100, Italy
Duration: 21/09/2024 - 16/11/2024
Credits: Camilla Maria Santini

A
BBBB
ITE

OF A
BOOT

(LEAVES)

OOT
WITHOUT — B

,

B — WITHOUT

OOT,

NOT WHOLE
WITHOUT — BOOT

B — WITHOUT
OOT

,

THESE OO’S

THE   (     )’S

IN MY

(MOUTH)’S

THE   (     )’S

         B B

  BB         BB

           I

      BBBB

        IT

     BBBB

IT(ING)IT

HA
HA
HA

BBBB

OOT

BBBB ITES OF OOTS can be read as a visual, sculptural and performative search for an absurd in-between space between that which is flat, empty or full. In BBBB ITES OF OOTS a black rubber boot discovers, produces and questions its own grammar. It (RRRR)prints, (RRRR)peats, (RRRR)hearses, (RRRR)moves and (RRRR)boots. While faltering, stuttering and repeating, the BBBB or BOOT or OOT searches its way between letters, sounds, words and verbs for its own shape or body. By constantly repeating its own shape, an absurd feedback loop of sounds, movements and meanings is created. Between these BBBB ITES OF OOTS two parentheses (    ) move. (    ) zooms in and out and twists and turns. As a scenographic co-performer, (    ) animates both space, our looking and thinking.