Re: [microsound] Re: microsound Digest 18 Oct 2006 reaktor thread

[David Powers <cyborgk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/18/06, JPaul23@xxxxxxx <JPaul23@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> In a message dated 18/10/2006 21:33:30 GMT Daylight Time,
> microsound-digest-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Which  suddenly forces the disembodied cartesian [male] thinkers, to
> remember  their own materiality and embodiment; paradoxically, however,
> this question  has no answer, because the lived experience of the body
> is precisely the  experience that escapes the coordinates of  language.
>
>
> It is? Damn. And here I was thinking that this was what the whole  history of
> the creative arts was about.

I'd say that there is an ENCOUNTER between the body and language ...
but also a gap or remainder.

What came to mind, don't ask me why, is the paradox of Munch's "The
Scream" -- a painting is by definition, silent. I think Adorno talks
about this as the dialectic between mimesis and expression. Mimesis
would be to literally scream, or imitate a scream. Expression, on the
other hand, requires fantasy and illusion; so one might say, in its
fantastic/illusionary/distorted presentation of a scream through the
medium of painting, Munch's painting gets closer to the psychic
reality of the scream, than one would get if some performance artist
just went on stage and screamed. So Munch's version of the scream, is
both closer and farther to the actual Event of the screaming human
subject.

On a side note, perhaps this is why some artists who wish to be
"extreme" or totally close the gap between art and life, are bound to
fail.

~David

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