Hyphen-RAMP
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- Hyphen-RAMP
- 1976
- b&w photograph
- 20,3 × 25,3 cm
"Hyphen-Ramp," performed in collaboration with Paul Neagu's student Perry Robinson, was presented at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1976 and consisted of a repetitive, ritualistic attempt to run up the gallery wall, a series of drawings, and the Hyphen sculpture. The wall-action, which lasting over a week, showed Perry Robinson blindfolded, with her body close to the wall, marking the approximate height at which the artist hit the wall after every jump. The movements were structured according to the rhythm of a metronome. The artist noted each jump on the interior of the sculpture. The appeal to senses in drawing the symptomatic movement of the jump—a reference to Neagu’s Palpable Art Manifesto—reflected his desire to transpose the artistic communication towards a supra-sensorial, spiritual instance. The symbolic leap to defy gravity aimed to be a generative source of knowledge, showing Neagu’s preoccupation with repetition and circularity of movement, with transformative energy enveloped by the body in motion through the presence of vectors and impulses. Neagu performed similar spontaneous jumps against the wall outside the gallery space as well, and numerous drawings produced by the artist show a continuing interest in the theme. A.Se.