HER V214 Site Specificity in Contemporary Art
Creative Placemaking Imaginary Wayfinding
Monday—February 1, 2010
Any given situation you are in is a sort of constructed reality, one such that has been created for you or, rather, you create for yourself. In reality, it is an allusion, or the practice of making inferences to the individuals past, present and, future.. Dreams: free association, lucidity; numinousness, serendipity, synchronicity. Some might argue this is all an illusion. What is reality if each of our own individual perspectives are, in fact, invariably different.?/ To that end, it comes down to an internal hegemony or perhaps a hierarchy of morals, values, influences, inspiring an others agency in life, agendas, causal affects and/or, biased effects that which might define our perspective outlook on life. In truth, these are an ever so elusive allusion to illusions; a set of illusions we self–subscribe to that construct our own individual separate reality. Were it not for art and/or agency in life, how else would we challenge our internal hierarchy of needs, hegemony of wants, heretical or, otherwise societal meme’s without art as communication in social milieu?
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