By Aglaja Kempinski |
While we are all frantically tumbling into summer like yellow leaves left over from last autumn wondering where the time has gone, Pubs and Pubs has decided to stir things up a little.
In what will hopefully be the first of many experimental post, I am sharing a meditative video presentation (how exciting!). Rather ambitiously, I attempted to ‘make’ something about one of the most basic, fundamental problems of my own visual research: The question of how things are sensed. In other words, how do we know a thing is a thing and if we know how can we be sure. Of course we can’t – but nonetheless those are lines of thought which (although existentially troubling if pushed to the extreme) can weirdly help us gain clarity about our PhD (or any other) projects. How can you see/hear/sense/know your subject?
The likes of Aristotles and Descartes typically use an apple as an example of an object around which to explore questions of sensing. All I had was a radish. Sorry. They taste better.
For this presentation to make sense and to let it create the meditative mood it endeavours to provide, please be sure to wear headphones or turn your sound on. The sound was recorded on a creative/anthropological workshop (organised by Atlas) in Skye by artist Ceylan Hay. In case you are wondering, the picture and video ARE from the very same thing that made the sound (for once we were not scouring the web for license free images 😉 )
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