{a violent intersection}, 2017
180cm x 110cm x 30cm
Reclaimed windows, enamel sign writing
{a violent intersection}, 2017, plays with the term ‘counterfactual’[1] through a performative statement that is neither true nor false, but embodies time as a physical force, as a mathematical factor, as a philosophical conundrum.
[1] Warhol, R. ‘What Might Have Been Is Not What Is’ in ‘Counterfactual Thinking – Counterfactual Writing’, edited by Birke, D. Butter, M. Koppe, T. De Gruyter: Berlin/Boston 2011, p227-239.
In the book Counterfactual Thinking – Counterfactual Writing, published in 2011, the editors Dorothee Birke, Michael Butter and Tilmann Koppe form an interdisciplinary exchange across psychology, philosophy, historiography, political sciences, linguistics, physics and literary studies, bringing together a collection of essays to explore how these different fields of study relate to the term ‘counterfactual’.
In the essay What Might Have Been Is Not What Is, by Robyn Warhol, Warhol distinguishes how a psychologist may require to ‘yield’ to ‘the power of counterfactual scenarios’ and ‘blend…conflicting situations’ to gain ‘insights into the causes of actual outcomes’.