Dan Peterman
Love Podium (travel version), 2018
Dan Peterman, Love Podium (travel version), 2018, Klosterfelde Edition Berlin, © Dan Peterman, Courtesy Klosterfelde Edition, Photo: Eric Tschernow
The works created by installation artist Dan Peterman (*1960, Minneapolis, US) reflect social, economic and ecological realities and stimulate processes of change. Underlying all his multifaceted works is the idea of social and empathetic cooperation, a notion which here extends beyond interpersonal relationships to include the environment.
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In the interactive sculpture Love Podium (travel version), Peterman combines all these aspects: specially crafted, modularly usable transport crates are arranged as two opposing podiums at the same time facing the surrounding audience. When two people step up to the podium at the same time and begin to speak, their words inevitably create dissonances, which can be viewed as emblematic of the contradictory nature of democracy. The concept of love expressed in the title of the work thus refers less to a state of intimate togetherness than to interpersonal dynamics involved in discourse.