No One Does It Like You, by Marcel Dzama
This video is amazing.
Tags: Contemporary Art, Video, video art
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Bride Stripped Bare 2 (Large Glass)
Tags: Female Form, Figurative Art, Hybrid Art, Installation, Model Shoot, Nude, Sigils, Video, video art
Interacting | Processing
In progress artist’s statement for “interacting | processing”.
sigil n.
1. A seal; a signet.
2. A sign or an image considered magical.
A sigil can be understood as a symbol for a concept, complex meaning, or family seal representing the values that a family considers most important.
In the western esoteric tradition, practitioners created a symbol based on a statement of intent or something s/he wanted and then performed a ritual to attain a specific result.
In psychology we understand that we as humans filter our experience and derive meaning through the beliefs and preconceived notions we hold to create meaning from an overwhelming amount of sensory data. Other filtering processes exist at an evolutionary level, a cultural level, and an individual level.
Through certain filtering processes a person can create an “impoverished map” and unconsciously limit themselves or derive meanings and interpretations that simply aren’t there.
While the filters the brain uses to make sense of the world are not thoroughly understood at the level of neuroscience and how this is occurring in the brain, Neuro-Linguistic Programming provides a useful model for how this is occurring in the mind. So while we objectively don’t understand it, we can still influence it subjectively.
Meta-programs are the processes by which we as humans sort multiple generalizations. The simple meta-programs are taken from the Myers-Briggs type indicator, although NLP considers these processes to be malleable rather than hereditary.
Sensing | Intuition
Thinking | Feeling
Judging | Perceiving
Other meta-programs include: proactive / reactive, moving towards / moving away from, in-time / through-time, sameness / difference, match / mismatch, self / other, and the representational systems.
Understanding the processes we use to make sense of reality are as important as knowing what is occurring, as much as that is possible.
Duchamp’s “Large Glass” suggests transparency, but allows the viewer none through the abstracted nature of the work. Instead of looking through a window onto the world, the viewer sees something incomprehensible, and is left with only his thoughts and more questions, and nothing to hold onto.
Tags: Artist Statement, Filtering Information, Interacting | Processing, Marcel Duchamp Quote, Meta-Programs (NLP), Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Nude Figure, Sigils, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, video art
