Leo Asemota | The Sonsbeek Suite (As The Distance Travelled By The Force Acting Is To The Distance Travelled By The Resistance).
2021
Second permutation: "how-far-and-how-long-and-how-hard"
Scrap steel.
Installation view, Kroller-Muller Museum and Sculpture Garden, Otterlo
Commissioned for sonsbeek20→24.
Photo by Django van Ardenne

The Sonsbeek Suite (As The Distance Travelled By The Force Acting Is To The Distance Travelled By The Resistance) was commissioned for sonsbeek 20-24. The Suite is a conjunction of Asemota’s captivation by ant colonies, his observation of time and a history of labour. The work was presented in three permutations:

First permutation:
“how-hard-and-how-far-and-how-long”
Walter Books, Arnhem

Second permutation:
“how-far-and-how-long-and-how-hard”
Kroller Muller Museum and Sculpture Park, Otterlo

Third Permutation:
“how-long-and-how-hard-and-how-far”
Kroller Muller Museum and Sculpture Park, Otterlo

Exhibition:

Force Times Distance: On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies

The 12th edition was realised under the auspices of artistic director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and his team of co-curators: Antonia Alampi, Amal Alhaag, Zippora Elders, and Aude Mgba.

2 July - 29 August 2021

Arnhem, The Netherlands

The Sonsbeek Suite (As The Distance Travelled By The Force Acting Is To The Distance Travelled By The Resistance)

4