ROLU’s attention is equally paid to thought and content, conception and reality. With their active engagement in a multitude of dialogs, they design like water – mixing ideas from the past, from each other, from memory, and from fantasy. Sampling from the
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Objects For Constructing One's Own Interior Cosmos Parts i-vii (2012) - rolu
eight new pieces by rolu -- space by andreas angelidakis
sept 7 - oct 13
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, september 7th FROM 6 TO 8 PM
"Wittgenstein points out that a picture represents meaning as a relationship between a word and an object. this picture is relatively harmless when we confine ourselves to such words as “table”, “chair” and so on but when applied to the more complex notions that philosophers consider – the mind, the soul, justice, truth, meaning – it leads to confusion. We ask, “what is the mind?” and expect the answer to take the form of identifying some thing that the word “mind” refers to.
To overcome this, Wittgenstein suggests we understand words as picking out not some single thing but a group of things that need not have anything in common. rather, like members of the same family, they might have a series of similarities and dissimilarities that overlap and criss-cross in various complicated ways. some Wittgensteins (such as Ludwig and his sisters) might have the same nose, the same mouth, the same eyes but, say, different foreheads. There need not be one thing that all members of the family have in common. likewise, there need not be any one thing that all instances of the word “truth” have in common. the philosophical task of looking for the essence of truth, then, is unending, not because it is deep but because it is an example of the ways in which we can be captured by a picture." - Monk
"It is an experimental 'campus', a kind of taba', where all hu- man experiments will be allowed - human ones, concerning human species possibilities. It is a kind of mythical place for feelings, for acting, for making things and constructing one's own interior cosmos-so, for that, 'open propositions are given, and even raw materials for the 'making of things', that the participator will be able to do." - Oiticica
volume gallery, chicago, il 845 west washington
We gave this exhibit a title: Everything Is Always Changing All of the Time and we gave the pieces names: Objects For Constructing One's Own Interior Cosmos Parts I-VII. As we understand it, titles and names are always a challenge. It sets forth the presupposition that an expression makes sense, that there is a link between separate terms, which also means between concepts, problems and theories which seem at first sight to bear no direct relation on each other.
! > ? (Wonder is greater than questioning)
"The philosopher Bruno Latour, among others, discusses the life of things, referring, in the largest sense, to all that which is usually not considered to be cognizant human subjects: objects, pictures, rocks, animals, natural systems,etc. these things, he argues – objects, images, and ideas included – have their own agency and won’t simply sit still under someone else’s microscope, on someone else’s terms. In fact, what makes them compelling is precisely what animates them, what they want, and how they behave when they are set loose into the world. In other words, objects, images, and ideas have lives to live, and instead of conceiving of an exhibition as a way to reign them in and use them to carefully prove a point, an exhibition could be something much riskier: a way to discover, along with the audience, how that point will behave and where it will wander as it lives its life. In this sense, the opening of an exhibition could mark the beginning of a curatorial idea, not its end." - Huberman
“What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning.” - Bohm
"Wittgenstein points out that a picture represents meaning as a relationship between a word and an object. this picture is relatively harmless when we confine ourselves to such words as “table”, “chair” and so on but when applied to the more complex notions that philosophers consider – the mind, the soul, justice, truth, meaning – it leads to confusion. We ask, “what is the mind?” and expect the answer to take the form of identifying some thing that the word “mind” refers to.
To overcome this, Wittgenstein suggests we understand words as picking out not some single thing but a group of things that need not have anything in common. rather, like members of the same family, they might have a series of similarities and dissimilarities that overlap and criss-cross in various complicated ways. some Wittgensteins (such as Ludwig and his sisters) might have the same nose, the same mouth, the same eyes but, say, different foreheads. There need not be one thing that all members of the family have in common. likewise, there need not be any one thing that all instances of the word “truth” have in common. the philosophical task of looking for the essence of truth, then, is unending, not because it is deep but because it is an example of the ways in which we can be captured by a picture." - Monk
"It is an experimental 'campus', a kind of taba', where all hu- man experiments will be allowed - human ones, concerning human species possibilities. It is a kind of mythical place for feelings, for acting, for making things and constructing one's own interior cosmos-so, for that, 'open propositions are given, and even raw materials for the 'making of things', that the participator will be able to do." - Oiticica
images from the opening soon.
please enjoy the passing time.
posted by matt olson
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