We find meaning when we implicitly inhabit these spaces—gestures that lead the cracks to spread toward shattering. We must write the forbidden. Write the unknown. These moments of rupture burst forth from gesture into reckoning.
Past Programs
Ruptures and Reckonings
Overview
What does it mean when humanity crosses a threshold with such significant intensity it manifests as a rupture, when the world is on the cusp?
First presented as a virtual program for Arts Letters & Numbers 2021.
WHEN
Summer 2021
WHERE
All classes are held virtually.
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Image Courtesy of Adrianos Efthymiadis – Arts Letters & Numbers
A moment is a reckoning.
It is a point at which the machinery we are all a part of breaks.
Moments expose us to what is real and true and essential. The better we are at being able to examine these ruptures, to hold them as objects for a little while longer and not forget what they revealed, the better we become at seeing the world as it really is. They can be distractions that divert our attention away from existentialism and suffering and make life tolerable—an “opiate of the masses”—or we can use them as a crutch to avoid improving the spaces between them. In this way, moments create wonderful things and powerful opportunities, but they can also destroy us, alter our lives entirely, and break down facades that reveal the things we have made ourselves ignorant to amid our own comfort, privilege, and passivity. The fact that “moments” are ruptures, that they wake us up, implies that some part of us is asleep in the time between them.