"Loss and Cause" / Nina Beier, Marie Lund

Geometry of Fields

Beier and Lund (Denmark, 1975 and 1976) base their collaboration on an interest in observing the mechanisms by which individuals organize themselves into groups, as well as an analysis of social dynamics and the many situations from which they are abstracted. Recently the pair has concentrated on generating actions similar to rituals. With these they examine the way history assumes a form that eventually changes or disappears; these pieces suggest the absence of the past, the activity of the present and the active potential of the future for the subjects or the situations to which they refer.

For example, their observations of their parents' generation brought the artists to produce Reminiscence of a Strike Action (2007), in which they invited a group of revolutionaries that had been active at the end of the 1960s to close their eyes along with the rest of those present. The situation…