Waiting for Godot

The Waiting for Godot project builds on my long-term artistic research, which focuses on the socio-cultural significance of glass throughout human history, or the agency of glass. One aspect of this agency is the energy and economic demands of processing the material itself, which is the subject of the process-based project Waiting for Godot.

The project also has a subversive dimension, which questions the traditional processing of glass in the artistic sphere.




The principle is a sculpture in the form of an aluminum tube, which is 8 meters above the surface and 1 meter grounded in glass sand underground. Under the aluminum tube, 2 meters below the surface, is a copper grounding system in the form of a copper rod with a cross at the top. The distance between the copper system and the aluminum tube is created by a layer of glass sand, where, ideally, after lightning strikes the aluminum tube, fulgurite, naturally melted sand, should form.

This should create a kind of autonomous object/sculpture in the form of melted glass sand and a combination of soil where the installation is located.

The project has been running since 2020, and to date, three locations have been completed:
Prague
Jihlava
Jamnice