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September 21, 2006
‘Reason for knocking at An Empty House’ and ‘Sight Unseen Enlightened Squirrels and Fatal Experiments’ by Bill Viola
‘Reason for knocking at An Empty House’ and ‘Sight Unseen Enlightened Squirrels and Fatal Experiments’ by Bill Viola
Three situations
1. There is a man in the small room.. he spends three days and nights without sleeping.
- Putting oneself in a small room for three days with conscious decision.
2. Car accident
-Faster than one speed of thought. Unexpected, uncontrolled. There is no time it
prefers to happen.
3. Imagination of losing oneself. Physical death, mental death.
-Just imagining about one losing oneself and the Fear of it.There is an idea of originality But like he said, will I know my consciousness has been altered? How would I know that a change had taken place? Would I remember who I was?
* Boredom and tiresome from endurance (1) and Life threatening moment(2) cross each other.
* Disorientation of time and space occurs - time and space we DECIDED TO KNOW alter.
* Within Blurred notion of time and space, all the sudden, one and only thing remains is one facing the existence of oneself.
* 1,2,3 make one’s realization of one’s existence.-one gets camera’s eyes to look at oneself. One’s eyes see the scene, and oneself within it.
* Human consciousness observing one’s self image, not the original face.
Posted by Eugene Ahn at September 21, 2006 11:51 AM