Ross Gibson
What is, in the context of contemporary art, your vision of a future / undiscovered art?
What is, in the context of contemporary art, your vision of a future / undiscovered art?
An as yet non-existent art of TIME will develop. It will take the form of some phenomenological routine that will cause a compelling experience of perceptive intensification. The new artform will allow participants to be in time and to have time in them in such a way that the LIVELINESS of known experience will be distilled and spritzed within one's consciousness so that the standard means of comprehending and measuring the span of one's life (i.e. in years, months and days) will become irrelevant. Henceforth, habitual attempts to quantify what is now thought (in the West) to be the human experience of time will be discredited as futile. With the assistance of the new artform, the scientific interval we now call "a second" will sometimes contain all the significance and/or non-lexical "force" that we presently accord to a lifetime; yet, just as important, entire seasonal durations will sometimes be made to go by in an eventless, artful attenuation that will not be dismissed as tedium. Art will have solved the problem of longevity. There will no longer be an urgent wish or need to extend the functionality and resilience of organs past three-score and ten years. Accordingly, there will be no need for birthdays. More precisely, longevity will have been re-defined and atomised, so much so that medicine will be relieved of many of its current preservative functions. Indeed the disciplines we now understand as "art" and "medicine" will become redundant. Ditto physics, finally. Ditto calendrical consciousness, therefore. Ross Gibson Australia |
