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Oh my silly, silly, silly mind! Back to overview
Oh my silly, silly, silly mind!
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The dialogue Oh my silly, silly, silly mind! was written collaboratively by Stefanie Knobel and Samrat Banerjee. It was part of the installation warp and weft by Stefanie Knobel, exhibited at Helmhaus Zurich in 2017 and at the Aargauer Kunsthaus at Auswahl 18 in 2018. The text appears in the publication Writing the body with the body – Essays, Texts and Performances (Volume B) by Stefanie Knobel.

The Singing Voice: The loom is for weaving. I weave so that memories of our repeating process of creation will never come to an end. I weave to connect with the world. Weaving is for communication.
Merchant: I am a merchant and my virtue is trade. I can calculate and accumulate.

The Merchant is a curious person. He thinks that a loom could be good for him. After a while he turns back to The Singing Voice.

Merchant: Can you show me how it works?
The Singing Voice: Okay, I’ll show you. First you have to come with me to a room. Inside this room is a loom. There, I will show you how it works. The room has nine doors. Each time I enter, I choose a door intuitively.
Merchant: Strange, all the doors are continuously opening and closing. Why? There is no wind here.
The Singing Voice: These doors are responding to your breathing. Now you have entered the virtual domain of your own body. This room is within and without, nowhere but also everywhere. Can you see anything else?
Merchant: Yes, I can see a tree there, under the water, covered with fruits and flowers; the tree moves the three rivers from inside!
The Singing Voice: Try to find more connections around you. Your skin, bones, hair, nails, brain, and blood are the virtual inheritance of the communication network. Now you can float or run by moving a nested loop over a grid: the outer loop for the inhale coordinate and the inner loop for the exhale coordinate.


Exhibition view warp and weft, 2017, Helmhaus. Photo: Esther Nora Mathis

Exhibition view warp and weft, 2017, Helmhaus. Photo: Esther Nora Mathis