Rupture: Phase 2
14.07.05 - 23.07.05

Lead Me not into Temptation
17.4.05 - 14.05.05

The Product Life
5.03.05 - 7.04.05

Microwestern
14.01.05 - 25.02.05

2004

also see:


takt at alice gryphius


takt at exhibeo


takt at alte feuerwache


takt at berliner kunstsalon

In April and May 2005, Emily Hussey and Nike Arnold presented a two-person show at takt kunstprojektraum.

'Lead Me not into Temptation'
Emily Hussey

I hate ironing, and ironed clothes. It always seems to me a funny sort of idea spending hours of your time re-creating that just-out-of-the-packet look, that newly pressed, smartly dressed and ever so vertical look that smacks of some kind of authoritarian cult.
Ironing is the insistance of order, permanance, and uniformity and a denile of the more pathetic sides of human nature ?Äì the tears, sweat, doubts, fears and uncertainties- its ideal is perfection, and a freshly ironed shirt says to all who observe it, 'i will not be led into temptation'...This piece is a celebration of everything outside our vacume-packed everydayness, and an expression of my fear of ironing, and love of feet.

'Inconstancia'
Nike Arnold

The photoseries 'inconstancia' (transience) was created during a  two-month stay in a Mexican shaman village.
During this time an intensive exchange developed with a one-hundred-and-four year old woman.  Many photographs emerged from the frequent visits and interesting discussions.  The series captures the essential character of these experiences and presents them in a linear fashion.

After numerous visits the woman had passed away; the photographs serve as a final documentation.