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STALKE OUT OF SPACE CUBE PROJECT
Sam Jedig’s Stalke Out of Space Cube Project, founded in 2007, explores the cube as both a sculptural form and a social sculpture. The project unfolds across landscapes in Europe and beyond, combining land art, performances, and participatory actions where the cube becomes a dynamic framework for interaction between art, nature, and society.
Sam Jedig's Stalke Cube project focuses on the cube as a sculptural and spatial basic form, which has been a central element in his artistic practice for several years. He works both with the cube as land art and as a social sculpture, creating an interactive connection between the artwork, its surrounding space, and the audience. Through his art projects, Jedig has explored various aspects of the cube, both locally, nationally, and internationally, and his work has involved placing cubes in nature as well as in interaction with people.
A significant part of Jedig's work has been to challenge the boundaries between nature, culture, and art. This is seen in his experiments of placing cubes in unexpected contexts, such as near the active volcano Hekla in Iceland, in a forest area near Karlskrona in Sweden, by a waterfall in southern Norway, and in a field in West Zealand, Denmark. In these projects, Jedig works with materials that react to the forces of nature, such as a cube covered in moss, which changes with the seasons. This process of transformation is a central part of his work, where the geometrically strict cubic form is challenged by the soft and dynamic forces of nature like wind, water, gravity, rain, snow, light, and darkness.
As a social sculpture, Stalke Cube also serves as an invitation for interaction and participation from the audience. Jedig has created situations where the artwork is not just something to be viewed, but something to be a part of. For example, children can hide inside the cube and break through its surface, which not only disrupts the physical form but also creates a playful interaction. At other times, more performative elements emerge, where Jedig himself engages with the cube as part of a larger artwork. A concrete example of this is the Towards Sierra Nevada project in Spain in 2020, where Jedig walked 50 km carrying a cube (80x80x80 cm) through selected landscapes in Andalusia. This project was documented by Associated Press, which produced a short documentary about the performance art, broadcast on seven news platforms worldwide.
Thus, Jedig's Stalke Cube project appears as a fusion of nature's forces, social interactions, and the sculptural form, where the cube is not just a static object but a dynamic artwork that responds to its surroundings, its participants, and the time it experiences.
Norway, 2018
Stalke Cube, (indside) Stalke Galleri, Kirke Sonnerup, 280x280x280 c, built 2017
Lava Cube construction, 2007, in collaboration with, Gunnar Örn, Kambur, Iceland
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