In-Between

How can we talk about the in-between concept? Is it possible to find that in-between space? is it possible to get our minds into it? Can we understand how ideas deal with this ‘space’ as we know it? How art and creation work within it? Here is an attempt to try to find thoughts around these concepts on the post  post-modern era.

Divided in 5 chapters or verses.

2.1. LIGHT SPEED. The notion of Perspective space tryes to put everything in perfect order, aligned and proyected to a non real focus point. But there are bad news. Perspective and its visual depth ‘field’ had already collapsed, and so did our comprehention of the world and its representation. We pushed subject and object up to the limit just to find the reaction of the nucleus of atoms? the answer is yes. That’s why we now live in an afterdeath big-crush, and we travel at the speed of light of the information era. 

   

                                     Ballistic drawings XV century

                                                                                             

House being tested in the Desert of the Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico.

2.2.TRINITY 5:29:45 am Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945: Name and precise moment of the first Hydrogen Bomb test, and thus the name of the last great performance of the perpective visual space. The desert turned into a space of simulacra; a huge scenography with objects, people, and cameras ready to record a test. So where do we live now? If it’s not a visual space where do we usualy walk?? Or is it all just a simulacrum?

Zod, Urla and Non emprisioned for the eternity in the Phantom Zone.

2.3. FLATTEN EFECT. The explosion is evidence. The sunspension is quiet and silent, but devastating. ‘Everything created’ appears at the same time and catched in one plane, as the 3 bandits of Superman trapped in the Phantom Zone...we float anywhere. Everyone witnessed how perspectival atoms became radiant electrons. And You can still feel its irradiation by the windows of ours screens.

Salvadir Dali. Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment.

2.4. 2 ½ D MAE ( particules or waves???). Paranoically, Dali showed on his painting Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment, a perspectived front view of a room in an apartment in which furnitures compose the face of Mae West. The uncertainty is the game, the in-between, or the idea of seeing a room made of parts of a girl face, or, a face made of parts of a room….

Footage of desert explosions from Michelangelo Antonioni' movie Zabriskie Point.

2.5. ZABRISKIE POINT. There’s only left a space of resonance, an embryonary state of reality, as if we were seeing a frozen, suspended disaster inside of an acuarium full of water, then suddenly, it could come across Marylin's lips, or Elvis heardress, or maybe Le Corbusier glasses, or even the smile of Monalisa. We move in-between, reorganizing pieces and dismantling others, where the only thing necessary is a good script in the Museum of potentiality, experiencing the gigantic wide band where infinits objects-we, 'subjects' included- in a kind of molecular state travel at the speed of light.

Like black holes, we try to understand by the edge before a chaos of the event horizon,  and not by the ‘light over the volums’...not anymore.

                                         Untitled 1. 2001. pastels on paper. 50 x 50. by KacoManns

All is mind

'The primary function of the paranoiac-critical method is to produce images of a startling and authentically unknown nature. The paranoiac mind perceives alternate meanings of individual signs, and interpretations displace one another almost instantaneously. Whether these new relationships are created or merely noticed by the paranoiac is irrelevant. As Dali explained, "It is enough that the delirium of interpretation should have linked together the implications of the images of the different pictures covering a wall for the real existence of this link to be no longer deniable."

All is mind, method and form...

1.1. Is the internet an exercise in advance for ‘total’ communication.? Or is it just an allegory of a primitive state of a constant and natural state of globalization? Do allegories still exist? The representation of the mechanical process was a constant evident phenomena in the advent of the modern era. Abstract machines were not comprehended in the beginning, except for philosophy, psychology and arts. A machine was the very representation of the new understanding of progress. Velocity and mobility on a massive scale. a linear process from A to B to C, etc. and where concept and the actual machine are synchronized.

1.2.it's 2008, and the coordination of mind into software and materiality as a final product- for example a new building, or a car-, appear in a continuous process of materialization and performance in real space. A flux of information that carries history, knowledge, intelligence and speed, a dna of specific properties and ways of performing. Information acquired by statistics, diagrams, data performed in several programs that function as simulators of future phenomenons. A building becomes a condensation of this flux within a time/space coordinates.information into mater. matter into information? A multiplicity of conceptual machines, appears in the shape of 'architecture' and space. Tokyo city; An industrial plant abandoned and polluting the environment, the carcass of an abandoned hotel. 

1.3. Time. Then, Could the aging of a building become an inverted process of releasing accumulated information from matter? to say, Does the theory work inside these processes? Probably not. Probably it never does. Or, does theory just belong to another époque of ideological architecture? ideology of machines, ideology of function, ideology of comfort, of the superfluous and the banal. Probably the theory was never meant to operate. It will only operate for the sake of reaffirming an ideology, something convenient but not honest. What kind of working methods are implied on this? Multiple systems broke the limit of their appearances occulted by a rigid and linear mind.

What events happened that changed our minds, and we didn’t even see it coming?