The article by Sergio Roclaw Basbaum is interesting with its views on consciousness and perception. The following extract is from an artists's statement of mine about the nature of consciousness and body experience.
"'Body' in contemporary art is often approached through the potrayal of genitalia. The attempt here is to observe body through a different faculty which is "neural" in nature. Sense organs furnish only the external in body. We approach the internals through the faculty of consciousness, which is lauded as a thing capable of seeking itself. We think that we think therefore we are. Consciousness closely gaurd the secrets of the body to itself perhaps. Without cognitive awareness the body autonomously carries own.
Another feasible attitude is to conceive the body without a limiting border.
Then the body suddenly becomes a mighty, limitless structure capable of encompassing space . Consciousness may then be seen as a property of space and it transforms into one among the many human faculties. Consciousness then ceases to become the total being.
The eight paintings of the series " Scenes from the Terrain named Diamond White" are attempts to express this particular state of existence.
The vision is not that of a romantic who believes that human being is miniscule before infinity. The capability of human to destroy and construct , to bring about dramatic changes to the enviornment , are rendered in the Terrain series . The paintings unfold repetition,growth and transformation rather than a clear cut preplanned visual.
"
The paintings may be seen through the following links if you are interested.
http://www.artconcerns.com/html/review1_sajith_as.htm
http://www.trivacontemporary.com/Sajith-exhibition.htm
Thank you
A.S. Sajith
--- On Mon, 9/2/09, herve pierre lambert <hplambert@hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: herve pierre lambert <hplambert@hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] from Hervé-Pierre Lambert
> To: "yasmin discusion" <yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
> Date: Monday, 9 February, 2009, 5:54 PM
> On the internet, there is an interesting article easy to
> encounter, written by Sergio Roclaw Basbaum,
> "Consciousness and Perception: The Point of Experience
> and the Meaning of the World We Inhabit". He claims
> that " consciousness is aculturally shaped phenomena, and
> that any conception that may emerge about it from a
> traditional Western scientific approach cannot go further
> than suggest a model of consciousness that, at best, can
> correspond to the experience of consciousness in the culture
> in which this very specific way of dealing with reality is
> embedded."
>
> The anthropological dimension of synesthesia - as a
> metaphor or as neurological phenomenon- is usually avoided
> or forgotten. Van Campen alluded to this reality in
> "Synthetic Indians" with a commentary on the book
> World of sense by Constance Classen. Basbaum developed this
> idea of a synesthesia phenomenon conditioned by culture in a
> philosophical reflexion using references to Classen and
> Flusser. The last year I had told that we needed
> informations on synesthesia in the different cultures of the
> multicultural Mediterranean world. The emergency of an
> anthropology focused in the sensory worlds of different
> cultures enabled to put into perspective the western
> association between seeing and meaning. Quotation from the
> same article by Basbaum:
>
> "Different cultures emphasis in other senses gives birth
> to cosmologies based, for example:
> - in thermal sensations, like the Tzotzil's of
> Chiapas, Mexico;
> - in olfactory sensations, like the Ongee's of Little
> Andaman Island, in Bengal Bay;
> - in a highly synesthetic cosmology, like the Desana's
> of Amazon, which make meaning of their world based on
> multisensory correspondences experimented under
> hallucinogenic plants trance; (Classen, 1993: Chapter 6)
> - in such an emphasis on aural experience, like the Kaluli
> people of Bosavi, as to "reckon time and space by
> reference to auditory cues and entertain a fundamentally
> acoustic view of the structure of their physical and social
> universe." (Howes, 2003:xvii)
> These radically different sensorial arrangements (and there
> are many
> more), the meanings they ascribe to the world and the ways
> of dealing with life that emerge from them, make reasonable
> for us to talk not anymore about a "point of
> view", typical of Western culture, but of a "point
> of experience", the kind of hierarchy of the sensorium
> that structures experiences and cosmologies in different
> cultures."
>
> Hervé-Pierre Lambert
>
>
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