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WES KLINE

Projects
2010.2024
  1. against, Floridas
  2. You Must Change Your Life
  3. Varied Choreographies
  4. Minotaurocracy
  5. Tauric Schema i
  6. We Begin Where Our Eye Begins
  7. Compositions for Rivers
  8. Binary Games
  9. Scale
  10. Ruins (ALTAAGYAI)
  11. Coward/Traitor
  12. Language Works


Film/Video
2007.2024
  1. There is No Separation
  2. Humid Trance Distance
  3. Choreographic Event (of the warm wind and the new joy)
  4. Koppmoll
  5. Laura,or Scenes from a Common World
  6. Blue of Noon
  7. Perverse Surface
  8. Dome Drift
  9. Hauntology

Artist Publications
2013.2024
  1. 18 Fragments
  2. Twentyeight Transpositions
  3. Friend,
  4. Tauric Schema ii.iii
  5. Two Ships

Teaching
2007.2024
  1. Teaching Documents
  2. Student Portfolio
  3. Radiant Communities
  4. Course Examples
  5. Study Abroad
Mark




You Must Change Your Life

Archival photographic prints/artist book, 2023

The Czech poet Ranier Maria Rilke writes in the final lines of Archaic Torso of Apollo, “for here there is no place that does not see you./ You must change your life.” Rilke found in his encounter with a stone sculpture of an ancient god an exchange of ‘seeing’ across time that led to the flash of realization - you must change your life. What could this mean? Rilke seems to suggest that meeting this object, outside of his own time, leads to another function of temporality - a change in life, a change in phase. This moment of phasing through temporality, where seeing leads to being seen, and being seen leads to the possibility of a shift in Being, serves as the central metaphor in my photographic project that borrows its title from Rilke.These pictures were made simply, as I walked through the southeastern United States, primarily Florida and Georgia, and stage a form of self-portrait through a series of encounters.