Concept
Jordan Kraemer
Worlding
The idea of “worlding” emerges from work in science and technology studies (STS), as well as my own field of anthropology, to describe how people generate the social and cultural worlds in which they participate and interact. Worlding, according to scholars such as Donna Haraway, is about ways of being in the world, in everyday, often minute interactions with other people, objects, and ideas. Through worlding, we all participate, albeit in different ways, in producing our shared worlds, both imaginatively, symbolically, interactionally, and materially.
Liminal Space
Since that’s not nessecarily a familiar term for many people, I’ll explain. Liminal space is a threshold between worlds, thoughts, personalities… nearly anything. It can be a psychological space, a physical space (usually a ritual space), or a conceptual space. It is that ambiguity between phases, between male and female, black and white, civilized and wild. It is the place between adult and youth, or the period after experience but before the growth from that transformation settles. It is defined by being undefined, always between, neither fully this nor that.
In folklore it is often symbolized by a period of time “in the woods”. The hero/ine goes into a space where the rules of society are temporarily suspended, where they exist outside of rules and conventions, but at the same time are not participants in the real world. They generally have a transformative experience there and emerge into society a different sort of player.
There are people who live perpetually in some sort of liminal space- transgender people, perpetual travelers, people from multiple cultures or races. Liminality takes on new meaning when it is incorporated into one’s everyday life, when one is always one foot in one world, one foot in another.
I find it intensely interesting as an idea. It is the brink of transformation, the ambiguous state which is often unmarked, and yet is so very important.
Extension
Knots, just extend a substance disorder, an object, a body.
Perceiving a stretch, extension, elastic thinking.
A reflex may be impaired, paralyzed, flaccid.
A boomerang with a start seems irregular.
See the Visible of the Invisible
How a symbol or an object elevate to an artwork? Through which, the body or the soul, we can experience truth? The tangible and the unearthly matters always fused together like the indetachable yin-yang as they complete each other. In the image of the teapot, the body is solid while the spout is hinted by a dashed line. The virtual part completed the function of the object while the tangible part stimulate the thoughts of that and more.
Baggage
The Unquiet Mind
The mind is perceived as a separate space opposed to body space; though mind can also be understood and experienced as a physical space; a space one wonders through, one discovers incessantly and one, that is in constant state of learning and unlearning, a state of transition.
The ‘Unquiet mind’ communicates, with the other, the inner and the outer other.
The term ’Unquiet Mind’ is taken from Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychiatry professor who wrote on her personal experience of manic-depressive illness.
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