“Whether the cloud of alternatives that is yet hidden in our eyes; Whether the soft snow that falls upon the palace of certainty; The invisible is, always, the greatest friend of emotions that are searching, not for an author, but for depth. “
(From “notes in black and white”)
Where do Visions come from?
Visions are those rare kinds of thoughts that do not unfold the existing mindset but disrupt it; they do not concur with tendencies in thinking, as they carry a critique of what and how we tend to be. They emerge in fractures as curators of change.
Visions are curators of change;
I believe Visions are an aesthetic category shaping the action that one is, holding subtle corridors in becoming while everything around is unclear, providing an alternative to that which is already set and thus has no room for beauty.
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The Aesthetic Ground (part 2)
Project: Polytopia
What Aesthetics dictates is the political act of infiltrating the sign; to infiltrate and to reprogram the commonplace of language.
(From notes in black & white)
Noun, in function of a verb.
‘Apocalypse Now’ by Francis Ford Coppola took 16 months to shoot, “Fitzcarraldo” by Verner Herzog was shot in 4 years, and ‘Dau’, a movie by Ilya Khrzhanovsky, has been shooting for 5 (five) years and still in the process of making.
“The set of Dau is an enclosed bubble called the Institute; Khrzhanovsky came up with the idea of the Institute not long after preproduction on Dau began in 2006. He wanted a space where he could elicit the needed emotions from his cast in controlled conditions, twenty-four hours a day. The institute is where thousands of actors have been living the lives of their characters 24 hours a day, ever since production began, using Soviet passports and money, in a world that is exactly as things were in the 1950s”. (Edited from an article by Michael Idov, rest of the article is
here)
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The Aesthetic Ground (part 3)
Project: Polytopia
‘Matter’ becomes soft. It is the softening of matter, of ourselves, of our genes, of our beliefs, the softening of our mindset and base-images, which is distributed all over as the voice and signal of the 21st century. It is the softening of ‘matter’, of the concreteness of our precincts and restrictions that allows us to choose our identity, to shape it as malleable substance. Fundamentalism, the historical mindset of fundamentalism is becoming obsolete.
(From notes in black and white)
Migration into the Soft
When we speak of the “middle” in a hard medium, what we see is the center in a structure, an a-priori privileged location, a unique point of view, like the control tower in a panopticon, or like reason in rationality, like good in morality or the truth in validation. It is the center from which to behold the symmetry of architectural virtuosity.
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