Andreas Pytlik

Terminus project proposal
Green is a dialogue between cultures. Communication between humans and their inner and outer natures. The word green and the color green are the platform – the basic formula – which stimulates perception. An instrument to enable contact and to initiate a moving dialogue. Filling everyday color perception with consciousness, referring collective memories of nature to oneself, the pain of feeling banished, hope for a life in balance with oneself - one’s inherent nature.
Being nature.
Visual and emotional touches – like tender breath on the neck – create contacts.
The ocean goes into motion, starting to churn.

The postcards that I use – green cards – are life authorization permits for one’s own existence. They are a means of communication, they hold information and tell about the fact ‘green’. They address the recipient inside himself, there where he feels himself. For New Zealand, I will create cards in Germany which I will send out to Blue Oyster Gallery’s mailing list. One green card, flown
around the world, in order to invite, to announce and to inform.

The exhibition location will be a dialog – communication. Its space will be “the between”. The exhibition itself will take place between humans, culture and nature, starting with the receiving in New Zealand of the cards from Germany.
I have a idea, I love this new part, for the project with the boat. May be we get an old and small rowboat and over paint it GREEN of course. We take this boat to Dunedin site and after it was swimming at the coast, take it in the middle of Blue Oyster Gallery and make around a feeling of Horizon with small "green to go" papers. This can be the centre of the installation in Blue Oyster and is a sign during the whole symposium.

Blue Oyster part of Green for NZ

The horizon line will be formed by stringing “green-to-go“ pieces of paper together. At first, the viewer stands within this horizon line as if looking out to sea from a hilltop.
Later on, the green boat will be positioned in the middle and will become the center of the installation. In the outdoor area the boat is transformed from an everyday object into a wandering object of art and then becomes the central point of the gallery – it will conquer museum space. The visitor can sit in the boat and change their perspective, becoming the ferryman in the sea of their own emotions, impulses and the surrounding and stimulating external elements.
Throughout the symposium, a variety of additional smaller green installations will be created and realized on-site. In Dunedin someone should dig out the word "GREEN", the digged out soil is a part of the installation in the gallery.

- opening in the gallery without rowboat Tuesday October 25
and visiting the rowboat swimming in the sea in the next days
- the rowboat comes to the gallery Sunday October 30