Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Film Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1986.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Film Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1986.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Installation View, 1987.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Installation View, 1987.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Installation View, 1987.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Installation View, 1987.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Installation View, 1987.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Film Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1986.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Film Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1986.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Film Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1986.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Film Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1986.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Film Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1986.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Film Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1986.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Film Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1986.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Film Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1986.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Film Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1986.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Film Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1986.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Trade Union / Die Gewerkschaft from Stiller Nachmittag (Quiet Afternoon), 1984.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Masturbine from Stiller Nachmittag (Quiet Afternoon), 1985.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Triumphant Carrot (Die gefierte Rübe) from Stiller Nachmittag (Quiet Afternoon), 1987.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, At the Limits of Growth (An den Grenzen des Wachstums) from Stiller Nachmittag (Quiet Afternoon), 1987.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Barricade (Das Hindernis) from Stiller Nachmittag (Quiet Afternoon), 1987.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Nights Dangers (Die Gefahren der Nacht) from Stiller Nachmittag (Quiet Afternoon), 1987.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Honor, Courage, Confidence (Ehre, Mut und Zuversicht), 1987.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, from Wursterie (Wurst series), 1979.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, In the Carpet Shop from Wursterie (Wurst series), 1979.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, The Accident from Wursterie (Wurst series), 1979.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss have been working collaboratively since 1979, attempting to recreate on a human scale the states of order and balance that govern and inspire our lives. Their valiant, delicate, beautifully inept efforts to defy mobility, immobility, and gravity are documented in two photographic series titled Wursterie (Wurst Series) and Stiller Nachmittag (Quiet Afternoon), and their film Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go).
These artworks record the acrobatic and precarious arrangements of such household items as carrots, cheese graters, tires, clothes baskets, and chairs. The characteristics of these objects dictate their interaction, and signify their interdependency and equality. These characteristics and their visual relationships may be extended to symbolize the networks and systems that make up “ordered and civilized’ society.
