Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Abstraction(s) on the nature of spaces

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" What I would like to do is to make you aware that you see and that, by not being able to prejudice the situation, you suddenly become party to an entirely different structure of the state of the real. It's you that does it, not me. So it can't really manifest itself as an idea, or an object, or an event because any of these things becomes distracting and at least in part about itself."

Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees muses Sam Renseiw, reflecting on how questions of object/non-object can be about questions of seeing and not seeing, and of how it is we actually perceive or fail to perceive "things" in their real contexts. Thus introducing a short piece of space footage, didactically linked (bold) text - click here to view or mouse-click in above. (patafilm # 341, 01'00'' 5.1 MB, Quicktime/Mov - Flash version for PC at Blip.tv)