#thetrialloop

2016

A group of people on a construction site digs out from the earth small wooden hoola hoops, attempts to exercise with them and eventually buries them back. The action takes place in the north of Germany. The trial loop is a symbolic exercise of confrontation/coming to terms with the collective and personal past. It alludes to the trial and error methodology in which a solution is searched by repetitive attempts continued until success, or until the stop of trying. Reflecting upon personal and collective space, whether mental or physical, the action is carried out in a group but within predetermined boundaries which are being sounded again and again While trying to use the tool the participants were asked to think about issues which they consider unresolved. As they report however, their attention faded very soon, shifting to the mechanical repetition of mere movement.