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Natalie Häusler
Hello From Rue Desert
Mar 4 – Apr 15, 2017
She is bell and he is beau.
Hello from Rue Desert.
"Q: I'm trying to say that a house is on a deserted dirt road. According to the dictionary, a deserted road is une rue déserte and a dirt road is a chemin en terre. How do I combine these 2? Should I use "chemin" or "rue"? And which adjective comes first? Thank you!
A: What you have here is a dirt road, that is deserted. I would use chemin. Chemin is masculine, so désert.
un chemin de terre désert. Sur un chemin de terre abandonné... ?" [1]
I am constructing environments.
The locus amoenus is subversive but not private. It is not a solitary place, locus solus, but one of sociability. Love making, singing and even storytelling may take place here: see the shepherds of Theokrit, the lovers of Colonna, or the meeting of a group of storytellers in a locus amoenus fleeing the plague in Boccaccio's Decameron.
The locus amoenus is primordial and quite literary, archaic and mediated through texts, conceived of by poets and architects: Architexture. [2]
The locus amoenus is a focal point of social organisation. [3]
It consists of a basic set of recurring elements:
A Tree, A Source of Water, Sunshine, and The Song of Birds.
The exhibition animates a linguistic presence in its environment, yet not one that heavy-handedly carries out a modern conflict of signification and the loss of words’ symbolic power. It is the language of poetry that is active. It has a secret intimacy with the Tree, Sun, Water, who say Hello, and wave their hands. It’s a language where form bears meaning and therefore can still relate to the natural world as a place that we talk to. [4]
1 - Conversation taken from a translation blog.
2 - Über Typus und Ort. Protokoll eines Gespräches mit Oswald Matthias Ungers, Lexikon der Linguistik, Locus Amoenus, Just Fernández López
3 - Das Umkippen des 'locus amoenus' in einen 'locus terribilis'., Bettina Schwalb, 2013
4 - Notes on "Hello from Rue Desert", Chrisstine Schott, 2017
