3.1 Methodology Problematic : Why it’s difficult.
Methodology is problematic for arts such as poetry. Spontaneous, intuitive, immediate, often un-anticipatable, and emotional, poetry does not seem a good candidate for enclosure within a rigid methodology. All systemic methods threaten to inhibit the fragile process of authentic inspiration, or to be built yet hold nothing: wind cages, light enclosures, wave locks.
Seeking consensus amongst diverse practitioners, distils method into aphorisms that guide approach to the work: listen to the inner voice, be true to your heart, speak honestly, strive for simplicity, express the inexpressible.
Such phrases are evidently contentious and problematic within the confines of academia. Their explanatory power is marginal. Too often they become the refuge of solipsistic refusals to listen to any criticism. Yet the history of art is based upon outsider exiles who voyage beyond received wisdom. Holderlin wandered in a schizophrenic daze over the alps muttering to himself, returning with fragments that continue to be analyzed and discussed today. This thesis is intended to navigate the delicately actuality of art-making and the demands of scholarship, providing an introduction to an artistic practise that straddles reason and irrationality, interface design and art, science and folklore, and heart, brain and body. It offers an epistemological challenge to the norms of how we consider knowledge to be generated and shared.
Proposed: Knowledge is the glistening atmospheres that envelops all matter. Language is demarcated at every interface. Recursive consciousness permeates all forms.
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