Space, Leadership, Choice, Politics II - Do Ho Soh

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic -------------------------------------------  mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group-population

	Who do we put on a pedestal?
	Do Ho Suh's Public Figures features an empty pedestal held up by many small figures. Donny Bajohr

Do Ho Suh - Lehmann Maupin

Image: Smithsonian - Take a Closer Look at a Surprising New Sculpture That Rethinks Who We Put on a Pedestal

My source: Andy St. Louis, Sculptural approach to far-fetched ideas, Arts, Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 31 August/1 September 2024, p.12.

Previously on W2tQ: Space, Memory, Home, Organisation I - Do Ho Soh

'Hubris Syndrome'

"There is another!" Karma (2003) by Do Ho Suh

Being constantly rational - in pursuit of evidence . . .

. . . while being chased by the absurd . . .

Individual

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      INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC  --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

 SOCIOLOGY  :    POLITICAL 

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Group

Descartes’ - cogito ergo sum^ A psychological case formulation for ...?	(Being constantly …) rational^ ... in pursuit of evidence
Drama: A case formulation for the audience.	Absurd: When £££$$$ meets health  - the where of when the audience aren't interested in the how, and why of the case formulation.

The theatre of the absurd does not need language.

Hodges' model?

In absurd terms the structure must go! No ifs ands or buts ...
Replace the intellectual concepts with poetic images
 but before you do optimise for distance from sense. 

"In the Theatre of the Absurd, the audience is confronted with actions that lack apparent motivation, characters that are in constant flux, and often happenings that are clearly outside the realm of rational* experience. Here, too, the audience can ask 'What is going to happen next?' But then anything may happen next, so that the answer to this question cannot be worked out according to the rules of ordinary probability based on motives and characterizations that will remain constant throughout the play. The relevant question here is not so much what is going to happen next but what is happening? 'What does the action of the play represent?'" Esslin. (p.416).

*and relational?

^D’ANDREA, F. (2017). BEING HUMAN. A FEW REMARKS ABOUT DESCARTES’ COGITO ERGO SUM. Studi Di Sociologia, 55(2), 135–146. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26479662

Esslin, Martin. Chapter 8 The Significance of the Absurd. The Theatre of the Absurd. London: Pelican, 1982. (3rd Ed.).

Previously: relational - rational