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Kohezja (Cohesion)

Original post · 2014-04-06Post author: Oskar ChmiołaOriginal URL

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http://wyspastan.blogspot.com/2013/01/sztuka-filozofia-i-semantykasztukafilmy.html KOHEZJA A visual-semantic installation by Oskar Chmioła shown as part of the exhibition “Kohezja” at Nowy Teatr, in the Workshop Hall at 10/16 Madalińskiego Street in Warsaw, which took place on 24–30.01.13, an exhibition by students of Mirosław Bałka’s Pracownia Działań Przestrzennych >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ^-Art, philosophy and semantics, analysis and interpretation-^ Semantic part and documentation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Art (inspirations and starting points): >Films — Crash, Podziemny krąg (Fight Club), Electroma/ Academic conference Futbol w świecie sztuki (Football in the World of Art) 2011/ www.muzeum sportu.waw.pl/pilka — “Piłka nożna w sztuce polskiej” (“Football in Polish Art”) — online exhibition/ sztukapilki.pl — a website on this subject/ Jain Robertson — “Mur/ Równowaga” (“Wall/ Balance”) 1980, performance/ Boccioni — dinamismo di un futbaler (dynamism of a footballer)/ Malewicz — realism futbolista (realism of a footballer)/ Baumeister, El Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Picasso/ Sosnowski, Harun Farocki, Mariano Ronaldo Goni, Deborah Sengli/ Holger bar, Andreas Gursky/ portret XXI wieku, Zidane (a 21st-century portrait, Zidane) — Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno/ Bertrand Lavier — decompositions of the playing field/. Kohezja is an expansion, a deepening and a continuation, a negation and an inclination, a synthesis and a question in relation to. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Philosophy I Game tactics “Freedom does not consist in doing what one wants, but in wanting what one does” overheard/ “A person is free when subject to no one, only to laws” Kant/ For freedom to exist, a lack of freedom must necessarily exist. If enslavement did not exist, freedom would have no right to exist. It follows that freedom imprisons itself. True and unfettered freedom could exist only in some other world, where it would be nothing particular, distinguished or even named/ “The light of the goalmouth has replaced the Light eternal” Różewicz/ “Life is a number (..), football too is a number” Walery Łobianowski/ “The two fundamental elements of tactics are: cooperation and diversity” W. Łobianowski/. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Semantics The semantics of place and context imply two worlds — the technosphere and the drama sphere. The technosphere is the totality of artificially formed laws and instruments necessary for the functioning of the State and all political structures, while the drama sphere is the individual’s personal living space connected with the drama of existence. Semantically, these two spheres can be represented by two balls of different sizes. The larger one for the technosphere, as the totality of the world, made of iron, metal, machine parts and processors, or concrete, not necessarily whole, perhaps also as a form, a shell; the second, smaller ball is an image of the drama sphere made of blood. Alternatively, both balls — the larger in black and the smaller in red — could be entirely abstract forms, without internal inclinations in their form. Two balls like two particles drawn by the laws of cohesion to the junction of the goal line are an expression of compromise and collision. The technosphere’s compromise takes into account the individual’s needs, and the individual’s compromise respects the laws of the technosphere. In a healthy relationship these forces support each other. The question posed is a question about the cohesion of the human being and the technosphere. Only under such conditions is coherence possible. The installation is an image of the scale of the difficulty of achieving this goal. (photo: Michał Dąbrowski)

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