Four Axes and a Fram

A kinetic installation by Gosse de Kort and Nieke Koek. The video shows the composition Ballet Mecanique, a composition in collaboration with composer Harpo ’t Hart and choreographer Amos Ben Tal. The installation consists of four rotating vertical axes to which hundreds of thin strings are attached, which during the composition transform from an abstract object to a poetic visualization of a body in action. The work is a tribute to body control and a study of the way in which humans project their physical behaviour onto moving objects and matter. The shapes of four axes (the big brother of the installation Axis 2016) is based on the work Grid 3: Lozenge by Piet Mondriaan and was first shown in cooperation with music theater ensemble de Veenfabriek and Okapi, among others, in the Gemeente Museum Den Haag.