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WAR OF CURRENTS_eliminator of possibilities.

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SITUATION // WAR OF CURRENTS_eliminator of possibilities // MAY 2009 // DE SERVICEGARAGE // AMSTERDAM

The site specific installation: War of Currents 'eliminator of possibilities' by Edwin Stolk.

Within the context of the UNFAIR project exhibition, the installation discovers the meaning and value of art. The work of Stolk deals with perception in general and it investigates the way we create reality by reduction, objectivism and the role of science. War of currents can be seen as a philosophical intervention, subjective, a new generation material actionism.

Catalogue text Unfair project:

As a radical phenomenologist and a subjective terrorist, I am studying structures of consciousness. This particular installation is created after walking the streets around The Service Garage. I noticed the street names like Stephensonstraat (George Stephenson), George Westinghousestraat and Rudolf Dieselstraat, all great inventors who inspired 'War of Currents'. The confrontation between George Westinghouse's promotion of AC power distribution and Thomas Ediso's DC power system became known as "the War of Currents." Electricity is for me a subjective phenomenon which in itself reaches a high level of connectivity. War of currents in this context refers to the elimination of present time, 'the present' as 'eliminator of possibilities' that transfers future into past.

Article published on Tubelight: Article Tubelight about the UNFAIR project Amsterdam, installation War of currents June 2009