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title: Collage
date: 2019-05-28T16:21:00+02:00
author: admin
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# Collage

   I work with what is there. I dissect and recombine it. Whether that’s with texts, images, material or digital content. In today’s world, there is plenty to choose from.

The technique is age-old. »Patchwork« – a collage with needle and thread, dates back to 1,000 BC. Collages with stones and shards – »mosaics« – are much older. The recombination of texts – »montage« – has been practised since the Middle Ages. Musical collage – »medley«, or later »potpourri« – dates back to the Renaissance. The word collage stems from the french »coller« = to glue. Collages with scissors and glue – also »assemblage« – arrived in the arts in the beginning of the 20th century. Photography had already discovered means of recombination which freed the medium from the material world. [Marcel Duchamp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp) is able to reframe extant objects purely by altering their context. I also associate this with collage.

It is only since the end of the 20th century that computer technology has seen the development of a new type of collage – known as »samplings« – which provokes questions that nobody has previously wrestled with. This has made collage techniques more controversial than ever before.