Labrynth

Ризома (фр. rhizome «корневище») — одно из ключевых понятий философии постструктурализма и постмодернизма, введенное Ж. Делёзом и Ф. Гваттари в одноименной книге 1976 года и призванное служить основанием и формой реализации «номадологического проекта» этих авторов. Ризома должна противостоять неизменным линейным структурам (как бытия, так и мышления), которые, по их мнению, типичны для классической европейской культуры.

Наглядным образом для неё выступает запутанная корневая система растения. Согласно Делёзу и Гваттари, у ризомы нельзя выделить ни начала, ни конца, ни центра, ни центрирующего принципа («генетической оси»), ни единого кода. Они называют следующие основные свойства ризомы: (1) связь, (2) гетерогенность, (3) множественность, (4) незначащий разрыв, (5) картография, (6) декалькомания.

По мнению авторов, ризома способна порождать несистемные и неожиданные различия, которые невозможно противопоставить по наличию или отсутствию некоего признака. Ризома включает в себя линии членения, «сравнительные скорости» движения по которым составляют её организацию. Связи линий ризомы образуют так называемое «плато» — временную зону устойчивости в её постоянно пульсирующей конфигурации.

Однако авторы принципиально противопоставляют эти зоны бинарным векторам развития, типичным для «древовидных структур». При этом номадология ставит проблему взаимодействия линейных («древовидных») и нелинейных («ризоморфных») сред. По толкованию М. А. Можейко, «ризоморфные среды обладают имманентным креативным потенциалом самоорганизации» и могут быть названы синергетическими ^[1].

По словам У. Эко, выстраивая мир романа «Имя розы» как «пространство догадки», он опирался именно на понятие ризомы — одного из типов лабиринта ^[2].

больше не танцую танец жертвы, только танец шамана... эти мысли о том где я в ритуальном танце художник и общество, возникли после разговора с Ralf Lemon о поддержки работ художника фондами. ну конечно Ральф самый лучший шаман. Nijinsky был жертвой и застыл как его жертвенная девочка из весны священной, красиво, но пугает.

the recent minotaur session

session

live painting by Vadim Puyandaev
music by Alexander Sigman

upcoming projects

Ir-Rational draws parallels between the 16th century and modern life, a grotesque fantasy about an imagined meeting between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I of England. The queens are represented as characters in the constantly changing environment of a computer game. The two represent opposing archetypes: Mary is intuitive; Elizabeth is rational. Meeting in an era of shifting paradigms, a struggle ensues until one power inevitably cedes to the other. Their collision reflects the struggle in each of us between impulse and reason.

Ir-Rational will premiere in December of 2012.

Minotaur, a multimedia installation, presents the Minotaur as a mutant of our contemporary, urban world, with desires for pleasure, love, and flesh, but never satisfied. The audience experiences a labyrinth of feeling and sound, and enters a convoluted world of spirit and flesh.

The residency will take place May 21st - June 15th 2012, and will create a labyrinthine installation and will culminate in a preview for the future, complete performance.

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the methodology

"All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity."

Wassily Kandinsky

The Book rehersal

side effect by Aleksey Bochkovsky
on these photos Mihyun Lee and Daisy Phillips

The Book rehearsal

Iain McGilchrist: The divided brain | Video on TED.com

Iain McGilchrist: The divided brain | Video on TED.com

The Book's notes

about The Book 07.14.2011

перформэнс в галереи дает возможность испытать зрителя внутри, через, снаружи..., зрителя наблюдающего, безразличного или готового заменить тебя.

Vadim's portrait from Intersection 2004

The Book Faces

The Book Faces by Rob Kunkle exhibited at SOMArts gallery as part of The Book installation. http://www.flickr.com/photos/goodlux/5904138922/in/contacts/

Ueno/Ingalls duo performance at SOMArts with Avy K dancers

The bottle of oil...

"Если в начале пьесы на стене висит ружье, то (к концу пьесы) оно должно выстрелить."A.P.Chekhov.
The Book прошлой ночью, просто классика! Collapse! Oops! with an incredible group of collaborators.

about The Book

The idea for The Book was actually initially inspired during Avy K Productions' previous project, Nocturnal Butterflies (2009). This project explored the diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, an artist and extreme introvert, and I became fascinated with both the hidden inner world of the artist, and the nature of the artist as being either an introvert or an extrovert, especially as it relates to today's society. The Book seeks to answer whether the artist can be solely an introvert, or if extroversion becomes a necessity in contemporary society, as it seems that there has been a shift in the art community in that its leaders are more social, more extroverted. Moreover, does sharing one's art—one's internal world—transform the artist into an extrovert?
A second source of inspiration came from an experience which occurred during performances of Nocturnal Butterflies, which was a multimedia structured improvisation. I was interested to experience the performance as neither strictly performer nor audience member, in order to both observe the structure and to influence and change it in unexpected ways, perhaps even to destroy it so that it could be built up anew. This is a very important and untapped aspect of performance, and The Book introduces new guest artists with each performance who are free from the structure of the performance and can alter or destroy the structure as they choose.

For The Book, an invitation into the private world and diary of the artist, it was important to me to understand how I can create a diary, not with words but with my artistic medium: dance/movement. I created video diaries in which I “wrote” a diary with my body, with movement. In order to be completely honest, methods I employed were stream-of-consciousness, randomness, and no editing; this became the method of approach for rehearsal, in order to prepare our diaries for observation.
After a period of time since beginning rehearsals, I see a change in each of the participants; I see that they have digested all the information and can see on their bodies how the project has changed them. For me, the remarkable moment is when suddenly, without my control, the group becomes transformed into a single, connected organism, fully immersed in the world of The Book. On a personal level, I prize the moments in the process of my creative research when I find an unexpected answer to a question, or, better yet, completely change my opinion on an idea.

Avy K Productions has a signature approach to its performances: audio-visual-kinetic. The core idea is that no media serves another; instead, we facilitate a dialogue between artists of different media and unite them under a common theme. It is essential in performances that everything occurs in live time so that a real-time conversation between artists can emerge. In The Book, we invite the audience into our internal world; the viewers participate by bringing in the external world and this creates tension between the two worlds. As they enter into our territory they bring with them their opinions, thoughts, and energy, thus completing the performance so that it is not merely an image we present to the audience but an experience within the same physical and energetic space.

"The Torah compares vowels of the alphabet with the living soul of a human being and says that the consonants, in contrast, belong to the world. Significantly, the vowel symbols are circular in shape, whereas the consonants are square. The vowels are seen to be spiritual in their nature, possibly because they are formed freely, without needing to connect the tongue or teeth. Therefore, the constructed consonants symbolize the world of matter."

Language "kills ideas by giving them permanent form."

-quotes from The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Signs and Symbols

Book

"It might seem as though the book is such a commonplace object that it should not really have much significance as a secret symbol. However, this isn't the case. Take, for example, the High Priestess card in the Tarot. The Priestess holds a book or scroll, half concealed within the folds of her robe. Here, the book symbolizes knowledge and hidden secrets, and in a wider sense the book symbolizes the very Universe itself. There are also parallels with the book and the tree of life; like a tree, the book has "leaves" that represent individual ideas and concepts and that collectively represent the sum total of all knowledge, occult or otherwise.
If we delve into word meanings, we find more analogies between books and trees. The etymology of "book" comes from the Old English bokiz, or the Germanic buche, meaning beech. This is likely to be because runes were initially inscribed on beechwood tablets. Similarly, the word "library", originally meant the "inner bark of trees".
A book that is closed is a book that conceals its secrets; sometimes we refer to an inscrutable person as a "closed book". An open book is the opposite, ready to share its information with all and sundry.
The Book of the Dead, for the Ancient Egyptians, was the series of magical charms that were interred with the dead in order that they might journey safely into the next world, and that would provide answers to the questions posed by those casting judgement on the soul. This book, effectively, symbolizes the secrets of the divine that are revealed only to those who have undergone the ultimate initiation: death. The Book of Shadows is a sort of recipe book of spells, charms and rituals, generally belonging to the Wiccan practitioner, written by hand and often in code. This book is the personal property of its owner, and can be a series of traditional texts as well as a personal journal, containing secrets that are passed down from generation to generation."

July 1, 7, 14, 21, 29 The Book at SOMArts Cultural Center more info:
http://www.avyk.org/pg1_ln1.html

taken from The element encyclopedia of secret signs and symbols.

exposure

at the breakfast table, oakland

Also found this; oddly similar (see previous post). Must be from last summer.