8
technology -
towards a deep ecology of art, architecture and being
research project of goldsmiths, university of london
director: raphael jay adjani
associate: sian ni mhuiri
art is not an object it is a way
i read this on facebook today. it is a comment by philosopher elbert hubbard posted by wirachai daochai.
what does it mean?
well i cannot interpret elbert.
what it means to me is close to the ideas of a number of art forms and cultural practices in Japan that have been described as ‘ways’, using the term ‘do’ which means way in Japanese.
e.g.
bushiDO - the way of of the samurai
sadDO - the way of tea (the tea ceremony)
this way or path seems to give the sense of process, of life-time journey, a journey that may not have an end: the goal is the journey.
i also related it to the famous statement by dance-theatre choreographer pina bausch who sated:
‘I am no not interested in how the body moves, but what moves the body’.
art is not an object it is a way
17 September 2010 17:38
director: raphael jay adjani
a.k.a. ajaykumar
associate: sian ni mhuiri
8 technology a.k.a. ecosophy 8 a.k.a. 8
brings together particular ideas from science, digital technology, philosophy, architecture and art to facilitate sublime works that shed light on our contemporary ecology and being.
this site is both ‘art ‘ and ‘information’ in that it can tell you about what 8 does, at the same time it is created and tended near daily, in a deliberate, ritualised process of re-construction and re-creation, according to mood, season, context,
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-a durational work without duration -
a ‘technology’ of the every day,
in the manner of a daily tea ceremony or tending of a zen garden, for your pleasure...
each page is unique: constructed with minor compositional variation.
spot the deliberate imperfections.
view via the sublime filmic work, version for the internet: naka-ma
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