“This work starts from zero”
Posted by ben on 19 Jun 2010 at 11:50 pm | Tagged as: interviews, poetry
Divisione e moltiplicazione dello specchio (MIchelangelo Pistoletto)
I still think that this empty space is very basic and very important. If you have something that’s already been decided on you don’t find anything different. What we did was to organize empty spaces in other empty spaces and from there leading to further empty spaces. Organization is not about filling things, but about emptying things. When you speak about offices, I remember how, in the beginning, we had one cell. This cell was divided into two parts because that’s the only way to have a body. You have to divide a cell, not to accumulate but to put less inside and to have more void. Otherwise everything is full. We need to find space between things.
I recognized this with my work with division and multiplication of the mirror. This work starts from zero and that zero is the mirror. Zero representation means at the same time total representation. When I divide zero I have 1 + 1. From zero I pass immediately to 2. You don’t have 1. The only time it is alone is zero. From zero you have 1 + 1 and this is the base. The two mirrors reflect each other and then you have 3, and the more you close the angle the more you have a super division, a super participation of multiplication. But multiplication is the consequence of an act of division. You don’t start with multiplication you start with the division of zero. You cannot have zero + zero + zero, instead you have to multiply. This is the idea of emptiness of the mirror as the reflection of everything which creates a third and fourth mirror, just like a cell dividing. The multiplication of physicality occurs through the division of cells.
- Michelangelo Pistoletto (from a conversation with Clémentine Deliss in Dot Dot Dot #18)
Zero representation means at the same time total representation
Stencil
Elementary School Math
cornflarks
1 year ago
a few random highways haha. idk nowhere specific. In Massachusetts tho
Arcana V: Musicians on Music, Magic & Mysticism
It would be rude not to thank them, no?
The wicked witch appeared and warned the princess dear, ‘beware the rose, for when it pricks, you’ll sleep a hundred year.’ ‘The evil spell,’ a fairy cried, ‘just might not have to be! A handsome prince – if brave and true – can kiss and set you free.’
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Not so much that continuity isn’t valued, but that continuation has become impeded by words or acts from our past. That time somehow needs to fade into a past to allow a future to be chosen and not imposed …
Somehow—and this is one of the most obscure parts of this account—they were able to transmit information to him (sometimes by his specific request, relayed from Moscow) using major German military transmitters. The implication apparently intended is some sort of clandestine operation, never noticed by the Germans, “piggybacking” on German transmissions. Some people find this technically near impossible.
In order to overcome conceptual alchemy and become a tangible object, art must be surreptitious in its tactics. A derived arts education will not hold up to the Internet and the radically cheapening status of the image. New methods are needed that are flexible and strategic – methods that provide multi-disciplinary, hands on, and truly empowering experiences. By providing a deeply considered program of exhibitions, happenings, experiences, and general chaos that parallels the real life of art, arts educators can help students to better understand the ways in which art can change and manipulate their lives and the world around them.
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this call, we’d appreciate it…
I can understand people being shy and not wanting to talk to critics or reporters, but presenting a “persona” is what used to known as being a “phony”.
This collaborative project with YouTube and HP will highlight some of the most innovative work being produced today and will draw on the Guggenheim’s ongoing commitment to new media.”
Call for Applications:
International Live-Media Floor of Netmage 11
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Empty Space – that I would like to
No Dancing
You baffle me, Vijay. You write an eloquent summation of 4Chan, describing it with passion and an insider’s eye for detail. Then conclude, completely contradicting all the sentences that preceded it, that spending time there is like taking a shit.
Then a long metaphor about the art you described so well as “bathroom wall” scrolling.
(T.Whid is echoing your scribbler metaphor over on another thread, comparing the surf clubbers to graffiti artists.)
And now this post from you, dismissing Loshadka, Nasty Nets, Double Happiness, Supercentral, and spiritsurfers, some of whom are defining themselves in relation to 4Chan, et al (embracing what’s embraceable and chucking the rest?) as a bunch of non-artist hipsters.
Rhizome is aflame with the fires of angry reaction, these days.
I don’t hypnotize myself with Marshall McLuhan so much that I can’t separate the wheat from the chaff, instead lying down in the wheat fields chanting “Dude, it’s all, like, a field.”
But what is pure consciousness (PC)? Alexander, Chandler and Boyer (1990) define PC as “a silent state of inner wakefulness with no object of thought or perception (p. 1).” They hold that it is conditioned not simply by cultural or intellectual elements, but by fundamental psychophysiological conditions which are universally available across cultures.
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the SCI was designed for quantitative assessment of frequency of experiences of higher states of consciousness as defined in Vedic Psychology
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Je suis Blonde
Gratitude is an emotion that occurs after people receive help
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These seven pillars being interpreted of the planetary heavens, the habitation of the Sophia herself was placed above the Hebdomad in the Ogdoad.[14] It is said further of the same divine wisdom (Proverbs 8:2):
She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths
mean to ask you: there’s bargain in mainstream galleries or is just a outsiders thing?
I know
David Kraftsow
A Time to Rediscover
you’ll see this reflected in their programming, but what seemed to spark that “ah ha!”
τῆλε + κίνησις
FANTASY VISION MEDITATION (IN COLOR) (2008) – Ivan Lozano
I had a nice visit with a painter yesterday whose palette includes bright yellow and orange. She told me about a young curator who commented that her work was “so 80s, like Miami Vice.” The curator saw neon and thought Don Johnson?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NaS05hOjdXQ/TERS3OpMyiI/AAAAAAAABCs/2dB6A9D8M5M/s1600/inception-movie.jpg
A feature that distinguishes humans from most animals is that we are not born with an extensive repertoire of behavioral programs that would enable us to survive on our own (“physiological prematurity”). To compensate for this, we have an unmatched ability to learn, i.e., to consciously acquire such programs by imitation or exploration. Once consciously acquired and sufficiently exercised, these programs can become automated to the extent that their execution happens beyond the realms of our awareness. Take as an example the incredible fine motor skills exerted in playing a Beethoven piano sonata or the sensorimotor coordination required to ride a motorcycle along a curvy mountain road. Such complex behaviors are possible only because a sufficient number of the subprograms involved can be executed with minimal or even suspended conscious control. In fact, the conscious system may actually interfere somewhat with these automated programs
The easiest way to think about GWT is in terms of a “theater metaphor” — which is not to say that the brain contains a theater in any concrete way, of course
IT’S NOT VERY OFTEN that a bleeding-edge gallery from Bushwick is forced to compete for attention with an oblivious herd of alpacas
MGM Grand
Note that what is being sold doesn’t necessarily relate to what is being made.
At the moment, obviously not
The ventral stream is associated with object recognition and form representation. It has strong connections to the medial temporal lobe (which stores long-term memories), the limbic system (which controls emotions), and the dorsal stream (which deals with object locations and motion).
http://www.YLighting.com
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Idiom: Separate the wheat from the chaff
The other characteristic of curmudgeons (in addition to not caring what other people think) is to have very strong opinions about why other people have it all wrong.
I love this sentence, it reminds me of how I described all the Dutch people I grew up around, LOL!
The movie hinted at this being an artistic medium when it told of the main character’s playing with the medium with his wife as they experimented with the limbo state.
“Menopause Man” from their 2010 album Before Today.
It is a hundred million degrees here in the city, which means, for those of you who don’t know, things get a little… off. In a good (but weird) way. New York is empty, for starters, but the New Yorkers that are still here, well, we inhabit the city in a quiet, heat-induced daze.
loving Bliss
Saint Humility transports bricks to the monastery.
Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
What’s really fascinating about the show is how it captures the psychological aspect of an artist’s pursuit to be recognized and realized. Francis Bacon’s remark that he made art “to be loved” comes to mind. There is somthing interesting and engaging about the desires of these artists to be appreciated for their work. The show does have many flaws but flaws can reveal hidden depths beneath the surface. I too will take the show for what it is, an entertainingly flawed allegory.
-Ian
one of the most vibrant and diverse cities in the world, serves as home and laboratory, and students take advantage of uncommon resources and real-world opportunities to help them pursue their goals.
The circuit of the drive is the only way for the subject to transgress the pleasure principle.
LOOKING INTO THE STENDHAL SYNDROME
Does the Stendhal syndrome really exist?
love is not just a virtue, but the basis for all being
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t55bvR5QmhM
love is:)
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Ballroom Marfa is pleased to announce the opening of Immaterial, an exhibition that will focus on the physical and psychic tensions between form, color, and space across varied visual and structural mediums. Curated by Executive Director Fairfax Dorn, the exhibition seeks to examine the metaphysical aspects of artistic production through a selection of artworks that challenge the use of material and space, formalism and abstraction. By using the exhibition as a forum to contemplate process-driven practices, Immaterial will consider art’s potential to transcend conscious states through a plurality of visual languages. The exhibition will feature work by Barbara Kasten, Rachel Khedoori, Esther Kläs, Liz Larner, Erlea Maneros Zabala, Linda Matalon, Julie Mehretu, and Charline von Heyl, including new commissions by Rosy Keyser, Laleh Khorramian, Heather Rowe, and Erin Shirreff.
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Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father, or How Not to Misread Lacan’s Formulas of Sexuation
Madhyamika (“Middle Way”) was founded by Nagarjuna. According to this major school of Mahayana Buddhism true salvation can only be achieved by shedding all knowledge until only a void remains.
c. 300 – 400 CE Yoga (Yogocara), the second major school of Mahayana Buddhism, was founded by two brothers, Vasubandhu and Asanga. According to this school, absolute reality can be described as mind or consciousness and thus thought creates objects out of itself.
320 to 600 CE Vajrayana Buddhism developed. This school teaches that the recitation of certain phrases, names, or “magical” words can help people achieve particular ends.
The secretory activity of the pineal gland is only partially understood. Historically, its location deep in the brain suggested to philosophers that it possessed particular importance. This combination led to its being a “mystery” gland with myth, superstition and occult theories surrounding its perceived functions.
René Descartes, who dedicated much time to the study of the pineal gland, called it the “principal seat of the soul.”[30] He believed that it was the point of connection between the intellect and the body.[31] Descartes attached significance to the gland because he believed it to be the only section of the brain which existed as a single part, rather than one half of a pair. He argued that because a person can never have “more than one thought at a time,” external stimuli must be united within the brain before being considered by the soul, and he considered the pineal gland to be situated in “the most suitable possible place for this purpose,” located centrally in the brain and surrounded by branches of the carotid arteries.[30]
Baruch de Spinoza criticized Descartes’ viewpoint for neither following from self-evident premises nor being “clearly and distinctly perceived” (Descartes having previously asserted that he could not draw conclusions of this sort), and questioned what Descartes meant by talking of “the union of the mind and the body.”[32]
The notion of a “pineal-eye” is central to the philosophy of the French writer Georges Bataille, which is analyzed at length by literary scholar Denis Hollier in his study Against Architecture. In this work Hollier discusses how Bataille uses the concept of a “pineal-eye” as a reference to a blind-spot in Western rationality, and an organ of excess and delirium.[33] This conceptual device is explicit in his surrealist texts, The Jesuve and The Pineal Eye.[34]
The notion of an inner third eye (attributed mystical significance) also occurs in ancient, central and east Asian, and new age philosophies.
Along with cowboys and horses, the authors were told to skip ethnic heroes [for European readers] and not to let family members steal too much of the limelight. “But secret babies sell quite well, as do marriages of convenience, or arranged marriages and, of course, alpha heroes,” Stoecker said. ”
—The New York Times, 2004[99]
74.8 million people read an English-language romance novel in 2008.[12] Harlequin sells more than 4 books per second, half of them internationally. Author Heather Graham attributes this to the fact that “emotions translate easily.”[100] In the United Kingdom, over 20% of all fiction books sold each year are romance novels.[101] Although romance novels are translated into over 90 languages,[70] the majority of authors of these works are from Great Britain, the United States, Canada, or, to a lesser extent, Australia.[99] Even in France, where over 12 million romance novels are sold each year, all of the books are translations.[70] This leads to a more Anglo-Saxon perspective in the fiction, which at times can be much less successful in a European market. Although Italy is the strongest foreign market for the chick lit sold by single-title imprint Red Dress Ink, in that country romance readers do not care to read books about cowboys, as this type of occupation was not common in their culture. The paranormal romance genre is not popular in countries such as Poland and Russia, although historical romance tends to be very successful.[99] Inspirational romance does not sell well in Europe, where romances that feature babies are very popular.[70]
Some publishing companies in Germany refuse to allow their romance authors to use their own names, fearing that the German audience will not buy a romance novel that does not have an Anglo-American pseudonym. German readers enjoy reading more erotic romance novels,[99] and some German translations of English romance novels expand or insert love scenes into otherwise tame stories. The alternate scenario also occurs, as other German translators censor the love scenes.[102]
In 2004, sales of romance novels in Australia increased 28% over the year before. Between 1999 and 2004 there was an increase of 40–50% in the number of new titles released. Harlequin received 20,000 unsolicited manuscripts each year.[103]