The Monolith The Book 2015-2016
Poetic and aesthetic exploration of the Book as a Virus-The Infectious Agent-The source of Resilience.
Performative presentation, Video episode with over voice, text and images.
Included in Indecipherable Resilience video. Shown at: 2016 Suncheon Bay International Eco-Environmental Art Festival SEEAF 2016, South Korea and 2015 Myth, Artisterium, Europe House Georgia and Centre for Contemporary Art Tbilisi, Georgia. Part of Tbilisi's annual International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Event.
“Many share with Borges the intuition that "scattered through the ordinary world there are books and artefacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, the realms of impossible and contradictory truth. "Everything leads to a book. Lines that say the same things, everything exists in order to erupt in a book”.
Think about the book, the ultimately and infinitely resourceful monolithic solid foundation of being, of knowledge, of culture, the opus of the architecture of the universe.
This absorption of wisdom, this nature of connecting, this strangeness of the language
the total absorption of all the possible and desirable nutritions,
the metaphors which pattern morph and make sense
where everything is in flux and folds into each other,
one and only reliable dynamic for understanding.
The book absorbs it and then releases back to the earth,
It is a mutual fertilization
symbiosis of the highest importance,
governed by the dynamic of nature and from beyond…
Bruno Schultz talks about the book being a postulate, being a goal. He says: 'It is the authentic that lives and grows...unfolds when encountered, its boundaries open to all currents and fluctuations... This is a phenomenon of imagination and vicarious being. An event may be small and insignificant in its origins and yet, when drawn close to one's eye, it may open in its centre an infinite and radiant perspective because a higher order of being is trying to express itself in it and irradiates it violently.'
Imagine: merging imperceptibly with the pages of that most splendid, mouldering book, sinking in there, like all the words and become one with the splendiferous thing!”
