Sunday, November 4, 2012

Problamatory (get it!?)

My territory exists is a problematic space:  it has to do with the interior and the exterior, but it inhabits neither of those areas fully.  It is the space that manifests when you challenge the borders of those places.  The squeezed-in places.  The places where what you discover that the interior challenges what you thought you understood as the line where the exterior begins.  It's a slippery space, and pinning it down at this point seems neither necessary nor helpful.  Instead, I've been sloppily and blindly (literally, ha) mapping that moments where that territory arrises, tracking repeats and tenancies and patterns, looking for something to stabilize, stubbing my toes all over the signs that say "HEY maybe STOP LOOKING FOR THAT STUFF and just wait for it to happen".  Its been a infuriatingly messy process.   
But I'm into it. 

So the territory is very present, but somewhat undefined. It exists as a space that challenges the existence of other borders, and because of this, I find it firmly entrenched in the dichotomy.  Or maybe not.  

Anyway, here's my problem: 

1. The problem of democracy of movement/existence.  There is something inherently non-politically democratic about the relationship that develops between the disoriented human and the objects that surround them.  I consistently find that the hierarchy of movement and interaction fundamental to a human's movement through a world of objects becomes non-existent when the human loses their orientation as the center of their consciousness.  When this happens, where does the consciousness locate itself?  Is the attempt to locate it too Onion-y?  What happens when your desire as a sentient human to move through space ceases to seem more important than the wall's prerogative to exist in your path? In moments, this is symbiotic: a movement in tandem with an object, or a movement TO the object feels potentially right, but the basic interaction of objects and bodies is inherently challenged.  How does one move?  How does one inhabit such a space? 

Hmm.


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