VIDEO pt2

I had intended to post another video based around the idea if Immanence, but it started feeling like slow progress and so decided to post this video of John Cage performing: Water Walk, in this video there is no destination; only experience.



I guess the contrast between the two shows a cultural difference in how people experience everyday life and refer to my favourite john cage quote taken from his essay, Experimental Music:

“This play, however, is an affirmation of life-not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we are living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord”

But can we do this? Without rules? Without habit? Without common sense? (I know every time i approach this my life turns into chaos...) you should see my room after two weeks of letting things act of their own accord. Without habit, preconceptions, language, values etc we have no tools to fictionalise ourselves... we’d be no one and exist nowhere; then where do we begin a journey?

So maybe in creating the world in our image (Churches based on human proportions..) and out of our abstract sensibilities and theories we create a type of space which allows us to exist (in a conscious way)? (i know this is a flippant thing to say, but this is a BLOG)

We cannot have any experience of the objective world except in the light of socially derived periods of duration which constitute the category ‘time’ and ditto for space, cause and the other categories (Alfred Bell, Anthropology of time)

By bringing order out of chaos.

There is a scene in the film Sixth Sense, where; Hayley Joel Osmond, runs into his bedroom (from the ghost girl), and into his improvised tent. Here he begins reciting some type of personal mantra (not sure if it has religious meaning) and surrounded himself with figures stolen from a church, it is as if he is desperately trying to reorder the chaos he had just ran from (the dead girl undermines his sense of the world and the type of space he exists within) he was establishing a territory. Physically (with the tent and symbols) and conceptually (religion).

Territories is where i’m going i think, movement between them, although i still can’t separate things into physical, virtual, social, political? They are all the same?

Thinking about Charlie's post maybe territories are ‘Spaces of anticipation?’

Each in intersecting "mobility" presupposes a "system". These systems make possible movement: they provide "spaces of anticipation" that the journey can be made, that the message will get through, that the parcel will arrive.- john urry mobility

Have any of you seen Videodrome?