Belief and Intuition///

Image: My own

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I still like his notion of ‘intuition’ for dealing with the non factual or logic of our lives. As much as we deal with a hard reality; bills, trains, shopping and germs. We also need a system for dealing with the non factual spheres of our daily lives - a softer reality. That which sits beyond standard taxonomy /// Things which we cannot easily process with reason or even fit our language. That which resides beyond.

The ‘Nursery’ of our belief system. Where do our beliefs originate? I’m still trying to track a neurological model, but equally a philosophical model. That’s a lot of reading>>>

Then also there is that which is in us and that which is beyond us - outside of us. There is me, and then that which is not me and that which is me and not me at the same time.

Internal, external and mutually idependant or perhaps mutually interdependent?

In the sculpture we can engage with the space around the object as much as in. Creating a widening aura, and yet a blurring of boundaries///

///What belongs in a bundle? What must sit outside?

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'Ists' & 'Isms'

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Following JK's lecture and MA discussion on Thursday, I've been processing some more about movements and their nature/purpose.

I fear this is ground that has already been well trodden and the paths already smooth, compacted and familiar. However I guess its good to explore for yourself and see where it can lead.

The question was regarding what era are we in now, after post modernism, or meta modernism or alter modernism. (I remember we discussed some other postulations). In addition we discussed what movements might there be in light of the digital technology that is now available to the arts?

However for all the possible angles I end up thinking of the quote "The clay does not say to the potter, what are you making?". Similarly I wonder if artists in the era of cubism, impressionism were too conscious of what movement they belonged if any, (although after modernism I sense a change in the self awareness/self consciousness of the artist and the art they made) 

It feels as though it is after the event, that a burgeoning movement becomes acknowledged and receives it's nomenclature from the exterior/more dominant culture. Even then I want to resist the 'taxonomy', it feels restrictive with a subtext of violence. The aggressive 'spatlung' splitting, a removal from the body. 

"splitting to use the term chosen by Lacan, therefore masks the subject from himself in the utterances he makes on himself and on the world. But Lacan also tells us that in discourse the subject experiences his lack of being, as he is no more than represented in discourse, just a s his desire is no more than represented there." Lemaire Anik - Jacques Lacan 1970 p73

Derrida also speaks of the violence of ecrire, that act of making an impression upon the page to write, to name to other.

It seems a naive and plaintiff cry, but is enough just to make, to research and to have value in what I do - I am highly cautious of being seduced by the zeitgeist - who all too often turns out to be shallow, usury and fleeting.

Then it all comes back to Kant's dove it's dream of being liberated from air resistance.

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