The finely balanced, perpetually moving rods create «vibrations» that extend into the surrounding space, connecting to the environment and breaking free
from fixities of traditional painting.
In general, the evidence shows that the process moves away
from fixity, remoteness from feelings and experiences, rigidity of self - concept, remoteness from people, impersonality of functioning.
Not exact matches
One can not but notice the dialectic nature of the two motifs that can be extrapolated
from the Paraiyars» goddess Ellaiyamman; particularity and universality; geographical locatedness and boundlessness;
fixity and fluidity; determinedness and openness; resistance and assimilation.
But is the development
from the God of the category of absolute
fixity to the God of absolute mobility a simple contradiction?
Far
from believing in a fixed order of nature, the people conceived the only
fixity and dependability to consist in a world of magic, for the operation of some part of which they possessed the secret.
With Stalin - like focus and
fixity, he commanded Whitehall
from his desk, quietly expanding the state while simultaneously shrinking his rivals: Milburn, Charles Clarke, Byers - all were gradually asphyxiated by off - the - record briefings to the media and on - the - case micro-management of their Departments.
Artists focussed on in this unique anthology use destructive subversion of media imagery to release us
from its controlling effects; destruction of artwork to extinguish its
fixity; destruction to disrupt the perceived integrity of built structures; and destructional risk to the self to raise consciousness of oppression.
In installation, photography and video, the authoritative
fixity of representational media is betrayed as those bodies presumed to be contained — as ghosts, as pop culture signifiers one step removed
from the referent — return to haunt the image as desiring bodies, as spectres, as present absences that make even the quotidian an uncertain experience.
Artists» statement: Why is it that traces of experimentation
from the 1970s continue to elude the archival
fixity and periodization that has already crystallized much of what went on in the preceding decade?
The artist explained his own work in 1996 by stating the following: I think what we all want
from art is a sense of
fixity, a sense of opposing the chaos of daily living.