Two artists

John Cage performing "Water Walks" Jan 1960

John Cage music for Duchamp's fragment in film by Hans Richter

John Cage interview

Synchronous Objects at the Wexner

I recently was re-introduced to John Cage because of an exhibition at the Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati. Merce Cunningham has recently passed away and tapes were running on both Merce and John. As I reflect about Cage's work I find he has isolated some key "big Ideas" for me.

What was he known for in a nutshell...Experimental music, wanting each moment to be something "I don't yet know". He utilizes a language of sound rather than a search for music, stripping down music to its original sensorial experience....sound. What does this mean to me...stop catagorizing, mapping, sorting, identifying, remembering, and be in the moment with what sounds are there and what they have to offer.

Second artist.
Robert Forsythe and the recently exhibited work at the Wexner "Synchronous Objects". Forsythe has broken down dance and choreographer to be a 3 dimensional movement in space. Okay I talked about him in my first Blog. He comes up again. I love the language, the dialogue, the visuals layered onto the dance, I love how it makes me feel superconscious of my own movement, my axis in space.
"seeing dynamic boundaries in the action of the dance"
"Seeing the changes at the edge of the movement"
"ghost like traces"
"visual noise amplified and emphasized"
"vibrating surface of the dancer's motion"
"motion volumes generated by the dancer's pathes through space"
"alignment threads"

It is too soon to tell just how this will come together for me. I am thinking about contemplation from the core of the body, at the heart center, expanding out into the cosmos. Local versus global and beyond. How it is all connected, the inside universe to the outside cosmos. Time. Space.