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Photo: Katrin Feller
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Behind MeterMorphosen are four friends. Together, they have researched and developed the Historic Folding Rule between 1998 and 1999. Their aim was a view of history without ideology or repetition. Musically speaking, the event side of their brainchild is the melody while the periods side provides the rhythm. The resulting data and entries offer a valuable mixture of common perspective and individual assessment.
Demanding to »remodel the familiar into the unheard of« when presenting history German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the leitmotif for the development of the Historic Folding Rule: »Only from the strongest forces of the present you may read the past: only by the the bravest efforts of your most noble traits you will estimate what is worth knowing and preserving of the past and what is great therein. The same by the same!« |
Jordi Guasti, born 1972, court jester, art historian and Italian teacher from Milan is the aesthete of the foursome. He feels more than miserable that the Marquis de Sade did not make the selection for the Historic Folding Rule. Main ambitions while realizing the project:
Expressiveness
Aphorisms
Surprise
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Michael Knaebe, born in 1966, is the economical brain of MeterMorphosen. He takes care about all hard facts with numbers and invoices. He came later to the team, so he was not involved in the creation of the history ruler.
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Florian Koch, born 1967 in Wuppertal, is a publisher, editor and co-founder of the monthly arts magazine BÜCHNER. He realizes readings (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Thomas Bernhard) with piano music. During entry selection writers and popular culture were his domain. Main ambitions while realizing the project:
Visual synchronicity
Contradictoriness
Historic correlation |
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Ingo Kollmann, born 1964 in Minden, is a German language and literature graduate and a master carpenter. He came up with the ideas for the Historic Folding Rule: »2 000 millimeters and 2 000 years obviously go together.« His sphere is philosophy. Main ambitions while realizing the project:
Concept
Knowledge
Practice |
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Christoph Kremer, born in 1965,has studied architecture in Darmstadt. His specialist knowledge and technical mind have been invaluable for the development of the Historic Folding Rule. He is responsible for entries such as Brunelleschis Orphanage. His main ambitions while realizing the project:
Basic principle: collage
Grid: metrics
Interpretation: history |
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