Excerpt from The Swamp by Anne Senstad.
Created for the exhibition The Sugarcane Labyrinth,
a Prospect 3 Satellite curated by Pamala Bishop.
Music by JG Thirlwell.
16:9
3.40 min
Stereo
Contact: sugarcanelabyrinth@gmail.com
Friday, July 25, 2014
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Daedalus
Daedalus, father of artists and architects.
The inventor of the
labyrinth, who fashioned
wings for himself and his son Icarus,
embodied the traits that should inform
the works of artists and architects;
imagination, inventiveness and technical ability.
wings for himself and his son Icarus,
embodied the traits that should inform
the works of artists and architects;
imagination, inventiveness and technical ability.
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Consolation of Philosophy
De consolatione philosophiae (Consolation of Philosophy)
In five books, Boethius converses with a female
personification of philosophy,who appears to
offer him consolation; “You are playing with me,” I said,
“by weaving a labyrinthine argument from which I cannot escape.
You seem to begin where you ended and end where
“by weaving a labyrinthine argument from which I cannot escape.
You seem to begin where you ended and end where
you began. Are you perhaps making a marvelous
circle of
divine simplicity?”
Book III, prose 12 , Verse 96
Anicius Manulius Severinius Boethius (ca 480-524 CE)
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Landuse
it is also contextual. For example, a sixth generation
land-dweller, an oil and gas executive, and the worker
of a river barge on the Mississippi utilize the same
landscape, but often with disparate interests, making
it difficult to elucidate shared definitions of value,
ownership, and interconnectedness. As corporate
encroachment and aggregate industry denature
local communities, elegiac documentation suggests
we must look to the future implications of land misuse.
It is imperative that we ask ourselves who the changes
are affecting and what remains to be lost?
Photos by Anne Senstad
Music and Labyrinths
Musical labyrinths lead the listener into new keys
by way of
numerous modulations, misleading
them with enharmonic chords. The title of
Johann Sebastien Bach’s Kleines Harmonisches
Labyrinth composed in 1705,
alludes to the
sustained state of disorientation that is
induced on it’s
listeners.
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