“I & it,” “I & thou” and Zuihitsu : A Dialectical Performance from the Artist’s Mind.

20 September 2024, Version 1
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Abstract

This essay is based on a a ten-minute video montage, exploring creative dialectical methods to address climate change. It is inspired by Robert Smithson and Martin Buber. The video is a site-specific performance, based in Ireland and has universal application. The dialectical methodology uses Buber's "I and Thou" and "I and it" to promote ecological coexistence by questioning traditional ecological aesthetics. The video advocates for rewilding and moving beyond the picturesque to embrace beauty and sublime in nature. It shows that the loss of the old burial ground (on the sea edge) to climate change must be embraced. Research reveals that the emotional loss is not so great as the burial ground in a state of rubble also has agency.

Keywords

Dialectical Methodology
Ecological Aesthetics
Video Montage
Site-Specific Performance
Universal Application
Climate Change
Art and the Environment

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"I and It", "I and Thou" and Zuihitsu. A Dialectical Performance from the Artist's Mind.
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A 10 minute video montage exploring dialectical methods to address climate change for spiritual/historical sites on coastal edges. Inspired by Martin Buber's philosophy and the ghost of Robert Smithson.
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