In and Around the Hollow: words

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

L'Incongruité de la Langue #3

Something about the difficulties of assimilating knowledge and/or making a sentence.

What is a 'hollow'?

There are many ways to interpret the term 'hollow'. For instance, we speak about hollow sounds or rings; hollow promises, hollow laughter; hollow as in indentation, like sunken cheeks; hollow as a void, emptiness; and hollow as a concave impression in the ground.

The FluxScore can be performed in many different ways and I hope it will be (contributions welcomed).

For now, I'm choosing to perform the score by interpreting the word 'hollow' in a philosophical way. French philosopher Merleau-Ponty used the term to describe how ideas and creative expression work:

'…this hollow is not a mere receptacle of the idea, but rather is essentially united with, is one and the same as, the idea’s advent' (Merleau-Ponty, VI 274/221).

In other words, I'm using the term 'hollow' to try describe what is to be human, how we relate to the world in and around us.

'...we are in fact inherent in a visible present which, all the while inhabiting us, announces and opens up to us simultaneously other invisible dimensions of space and time…' (Mauro Carbone)

PringaDa, June 2011

Comments and Contributions

This project is about how we relate to things. I may have kickstarted the project, but it belongs to all of us – anyone, anywhere who wants to join in.

The 'FluxScore' is called that because of the 'flux' of life. The 'score' is a bit like a music score – anyone can play it.*

Comments and contributions of performances of the score are welcomed. Scroll further down this column to discover how to do this.

Alternatively, I can perform the score for you. Just describe what you would like me to do.

* acknowledgement is given to those who started 'Fluxus' some 50 years ago, and whose philosophy and activities have influenced so much of contemporary art today