B.O.D.Y. (2000–2009)
Analogue photography B&W reversal film
The reversal film for the projection in the cabinet
I took these photographs with two types of lenses.
Focus: arorund 1 cm 2
Seeing-in:
When the body would be separate from the whole of the body–what we see in a very small field of the body–maybe we will find another world of the body.
They are time and space created by light and shadow on the two-dimensional surface. Here, the intervention as a work of art is to make a new discovery far from our perception of the body in our daily life. We cannot see the details of our own bodies. Most of our perceptions of physicality are constructed by the third party.
These photographs gave disabled performers a new sense of body who has been called ugly by their families and society and gave inspiration to them.
Eroticism within them nothing to see, what we see only a reflection on the two-dimensional surface through the light and shadow, in this space and time, their bodies are existed–is a depiction.
As the sunset swings into view, you think, "That's beautiful." You take a bite of cake and you think, "Wow, that's sweet"-maybe too sweet. You hear that new song and it blows you away. You play it for your friends. The novel is wonderful, the movie disappoints, the dress looked better in the store. Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters offers three new answers to Socrates's great question about how we should live that focus on the place of aesthetic engagement in well-being. Three philosophers offer their perspectives on how aesthetic commitments move us through the world and shape our well-being, our sense of self, and our connections to others. Aesthetic engagement is a site for achievement, it cultivates individuality within a context of community, and it satisfies a hunger for exploring our differences. A closing dialogue between the authors probes some flash points in thinking about value: disagreement, subjectivism, ethnocentrism, fads and fashions, and ideology critique. Written in appealing prose, with vivid examples, a comprehensive introduction, and suggestions for further reading, the book is designed as a self-contained module in aesthetics for introductory courses in philosophy.
Changing symbolism through the everyday life:
From symbolism to Shadow as 'Metaphor' -> dealing with the natural phenomenon in everyday life (Notion of Time), Observational
Nature and Mimesis:
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. Niels Bohr (1885–1962)
Light and Life*. N. BOHR. Nature volume 131, pages 457–459 (1933)Cite this article.
With regard to the SKIN exhibition at Dark Gallery CPH, from the art historical point of view lied in the Danish art and cultural context literary rather in the context of life science, which migt be possible to exolore as a collaborative contribution more profoundly. I did not look at the whole of this exhibiton SKIN at Dark Gallery CPH (June 1 – June 30, 2023) in Copenhagen, Denmark.
I like my work B.O.D.Y. - bodylandscape, these photographic witch expressions through light and shadow–not an engel–wanted to coin an aesthetic account in the experimental photography. My works of photography and film&video were in the context of experimental photography and film&video.– Avant garde since 20th century in the arts (Architecture, Music, Visual arts, Literature, Film, Photography, Performing arts).
The relevance of Niels Bohr's lecture paper "Light and Life" and my artistic research is my task for exploring the ethics of the peaceful use of human knowledge with regard to the topic of creativity in the context of aesthetics.
To explore the topic in ethics and aesthetics practically, I explored a method of meta-epistemological. Thereby I worked on the paper of "the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction" by Walter Benjamin in 1935 (academic theorised, Benjamn's doctoral thesis).
Practically, Duchamp and many others in Dadaism, Surrealism dealt with its topic. Duchamp coined "ready-made" in the eraly of 20th century (Fontain, 1917)
I dealt in my work between analogue and digital from the notion of the 21st century. My suggestion is thereby a topic 'Correspondence' in the age of the lens of art.
British philosophy is clarified in analytic philosophy methdologically, but it is "vague", unclear, not clear, and the boundary is unknown, for example, "light and shadow" in space. The notion of time is the same also.
The issue with classical Western philosophy:
In the contemporary era, it has been solving in the contemporary analytic philosophy and already shifted. It is the same with German idealism such as Kant, Hegel and so on. In the Danish academy, such as Søren Kierkegaard in the 19th century. On the topic of 'shadow' Hammershøi’s Shadow and his philosophical exploration were observational and epistemological. His idea and experience through the photographic exposure by the light (including darkness and shadow), and the art of lense (focus) and its perceptionat that time. -> Notion of Time
Søren Kierkegaard's exploration of the topic of 'shadow' was rather moral in life. It was based on unscientific investigations but rather it lay in the philosophical mind. – Philosophy and Religion in a new sentence
British philosophy refers to the philosophical tradition of the British people. "The native characteristics of British philosophy are these: common sense, dislike of complication, a strong preference for the concrete over the abstract and a certain awkward honesty of method in which an occasional pearl of poetry is embedded".[1]
Randomness -> X in (E)Motion by Wind -> Body (and Mind) and Time in Space
Analytic philosophy is a branch and tradition of philosophy using analysis, popular in the Western world and particularly the Anglosphere, which began around the turn of the 20th century in the contemporary era in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Scandinavia, and continues today.
Projection -> X (Shadow), Randomness -> Body (and Mind) and Time in Space
Time of Notion
(Science, its mathematical expression in logic*)
In the art, not only Western art, as well as Eastern art–human creation–there is 'Mimesis', a designed model of nature by human(s), that is an important study in human cultural history.
From an anthropological point of view, cosmology is closely related to human science*.
Since Einstein's theory of relativity, it has been studied logically and epistemologically.
*Human science is the objective, informed critique of human existence and how it relates to reality.
I am an artistic researcher who explore transversal aesthetics. I mention that humans evolve according to the "notion of time."
Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light—the core of what we now know as quantum theory—than he did about relativity.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9781400874040/einstein-and-the-quantum
matrix, a set of numbers arranged in rows and columns so as to form a rectangular array. The numbers are called the elements, or entries, of the matrix. Matrices have wide applications in engineering, physics, economics, and statistics as well as in various branches of mathematics.
In the Southern Hemisphere, natural phenomena on Earth in the North and South are opposite to those in the Northern Hemisphere. It is warm in the north and cold in the south.
My sound installation as well as visual installation is which aims, not the automatic way of system for and by humans, but rather for the autonomy of humans as the human-ability of creativity.
The sound composition between Else Marie Pade and Erika Matsunami (me) B.O.D.Y. (how it relats to my artistic research B.O.D.Y.:
Difference of Klangfarbe/timbre, with psychology and without psychology in the context of neurocognitive aspect. – are two different aspects of 'surrealism' on dream during sleeping–one is from the aspect of psychology (Pad, in the Western culture) and another one is from the aspect of neuroscience (Matsunami, in the Japanese culture, out of the Western world)
Reference ->Musicology from the Renaissance
Thomas Fuchs, ecology of the brain, Oxford: OUP, 2018 (2007 in Germany)
One of the important things about decolonialism is dealing with Western psychology. This also applies to child sexual abuse in the Western countires (a kind of psychological play of love or be loved situation, which cannot reject.). The starting point of Western psychology was from the aspect of the power, such as 'God' centred world.
We feel, and we perceive the world around us always, even during the sleep.–conscious and nonconscious activities
Mind is contained in conscious.
What I'm currently considering
"Shadow" is a natural phenomenon of an object blocking light. The relationship between the shadow and time and space differs depending on the "place" on the earth.
Einstein described time as light1.
There, he considers "shadows" and the spatiality of time and light.
What is the difference between the "shadow" at the equator and at the North Pole in summer in the northern hemisphere?
In this chapter, composers, physicists, and literary scholars are all concerned with the definition of Einstein and their research.
In time and space on the sureface of the earth, there is air, temperature differences, and atmospheric pressure. That creates wind.
Wind causes a natural phenomenon called motion, depending on the object that blocks the light.
Explaining the "I" scientifically in the context of evolutionary theory, I am a life form since the birth of mankind on Earth. – 'My' being, it is the same with 'Your' being, also it is the same with 'Our' being
The assumption is that the DNA would have been simpler. The assumption is that we would not have seen such a large variety of today's "DNA" in that one origin.
Humans were not celected by God(s), but rather it has been Human's 'being' naturally.
Genes have an origin. humanity is humanity. Monkeys are monkeys. It never gets mixed up.
Mediation of between Authority and Anti-Authority
- on Tolerance
This subject of 'tolerance' is an important leitmotif in this artistic research. – What is 'tolerance'? and 'in-between'
Mediation of between Authorities is very difficult to express in logic, that is ceasefire. – In the case of international conflicts and war
'Confrontation' can only in a peace condition (a fair condition), otherwise, the confrontation means killing humans each other.
In 2024, we in European royal art academy shift or has been shifting from the traditional art idealism into the natural reality through the natural scientific knowledge in the 21st century.
His painting today has more aesthetic value.
There is a shift from habitual artistry to art as knowledge.
My work "I-ARUIWA" for the peom by DOGEN, Aruiwa is Japanese that means 'or' or 'Neither' in Englisch.
Or/Neither (from the aspect of critical theory)
By DOGEN in his poem, he expressed the 'whole' of life, not a fragment. 'whole' in objective subjectivity towards 'whole' in Western Idealism.
Thereby the question is 'What is time and space in life from the biological aspect philosophically?"
On the other hand, a minority of neurobiologists and physicists maintains "that quantum mechanics is important for understanding higher brain functions, e.g. for the generation of voluntary movements (free will), for high-level perception and for consciousness.”
The quantum mind or quantum consciousness is a group of hypotheses proposing that local physical laws and interactions from classical mechanics or connections between neurons alone cannot explain consciousness, positing instead that quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as entanglement and superposition that cause ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind