Essay: The Body as Grenzsituation
Author: Victoria Morgunova — media and sound artist, musician.
Title of the work: The Body as Grenzsituation
Annotation: This essay considers the paradox that a body is both the substantial cause of continuous overcoming and the possibility of its implementation, as well as reflecting the brightness, sharpness, and complexity of such a «phenomenon» as corporality, causing and generating the possibility of transposing a human being to the limits of consciously imaginative sensory experience and crossing these limits.
The Body as Grenzsituation
Everything that causes the transition
from non-existence to existence is art.
Plato
A story, which took place a long time ago and turned into the ashes of the present, nevertheless can invisibly haunt every moment of our existence, indirectly manifesting itself in interaction with the world, and being something that no longer exists as a force and part of something immanent, which was once split and fragmented, becomes something separate, but remains inside.
after all, as is known,
there isn’t time at the non-conscious levels of our inner structure,
thanks to which emergence of conscious and other confrontation
becomes possible—temporality and timelessness,
existence and the presence of something that is no longer there.
First sight of screaming nothingness.
whimsical.
frightening.
shocking.
Striking with the suddenness of its appearance/manifestation,
bursting and tearing the existence.
The emerging rupture and painful detachment from the very essence of life cause expansion of the very same non-.
non-existence.
not-accordant to here-and-now.
not-holding life.
Not-giving birth to anything but necessity and inevitability of overcoming—sure, provided that centri-petality tends to existence and manifestation.
However, to reach such egregious sensations, time must pass, but not just any time. It should reflect the length of the process of transitioning the accumulated number of separated situations into quality because the unmanifested dialectical discourse of polarities, opposing and mutually exclusive categories began at the very same (prime) moment.
The discovery of a qualitative character at the same time testifies to such a great disparity of desires and possibilities that the only possible description of the relationship between them is contrariety. And at this very moment, an already functioning manifestation is being threatened.
Isolation and estrangement. Or an overcoming and struggle.
But overcoming is obligatory, isn’t it? Is isolation obligatory?
Struggle—is definitely a must.
Estrangement—as a step and part of the overcoming.
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BUT WHAT IS OVERCOMING?
AND OVERCOMING OF WHAT?
If something isn’t designated—it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist.
The fuzzy, unformed, changing but essentially constant narratives that we use and repeat from time to time have the function of signifying that very hidden non-existence in human space. The charge contained in history may not always declare itself; may have a fluctuating intensity pattern. But over time—the very same, where the transition from quality to quantity is carried out—with an increase of impossibility and unbearability, the sharpness of the charge is exposed.
Its power. Its potential. Its scale.
The scale and volume that starts to overcome the possibility of free existence.
The charge is the sign relative to the nucleus, the essence of the non-determined, its foundation, the root cause of its appearance. What this sign hides and points to begins to gradually subjugate freedom, initiates dependence, forms a fracture, turning into anguish over time. In the breaking stage, invisible and not readable by us, as an entity starts to fiercely demand its right to exist, to gain the appearance. This ferocity may be felt as a gradual disappearance and attenuation of life and even a hint of the joyful living of moments of being.
The inner air, the flow, the freedom of flow, the movement—it all freezes.
stops.
crashes.
fragments.
destabilizes.
breaks up.
finishes.
suffocates.
stop.
Infinite and, moreover, forced subordination to such a volume of this force turns life into a space of the liminal, where the transition to a new quality and reaching the level of liberation is not even thought possible, is not seen, and is not in the field of actually executable and real action.
Constant existence on the edge, life at the limits of one’s capabilities, where it seems to the person walking along the edge that (s)he is standing and the only way out is disappearance and total departure, transforms current and moving space-time into something unsustainable. Suddenly it turns out that the distortion of the continuum of reality and the fall to the inexpressible depth of darkness in a situation for others of the completely static and life-affirming material world becomes more real than the manifested world itself.
fading.
escape.
fight.
the beginning of a gradual disappearance.
dissolution.
leave.
Any of these variants of interaction with the space of the «non-existent» that has revealed itself will lead to one of the following ways of its (self)disclosure.
dissociation. expansion into various areas of life. disintegration.
absorption of the personality by the ongoing process with the loss of support,
rupture of identity, dislocation of the true and approved,
involuntary change of priority discourse.
different sense of time.
alienation. disunity.
despair. hopelessness. insulation.
Disunity with a complete loss of dialectical aspirations.
In the worst case, the loss of faith, self, life.
At the moment, when fading and the possibility of maintaining a state of internal numbness are violated by the very course of life and the immanent need to continue development, and escape turns into avoidance of one of the most significant meaning-forming structures of oneself, when the visible and perceived world begins to differ more and more from the enduring reality,
when the feeling of discord between the perceived and the perceiver becomes too obvious, which seem to be on different levels, in layers separated from each other,
when the prospect of total absorption and complete disappearance becomes too close, but something still makes you linger on this edge—the fight begins.
Self-destruction and various self-harm can become a harbinger of its origin and upcoming appearance, as attempts to get rid of non-existence inside oneself or to transform unbearability and incomprehension of what is happening into something known, familiar, understandable—decode the message into a material unit or destroy it completely without decoding.
The more intense the need for something to come to life, the more unbearable the process can become. In a situation of gradual intensification of the intensity of the course of this experience, just as gradually, there is nothing left but walking along the edge.
The narrowing of everything surrounding and real leads to the only focus being the edge, the demarcation line.
Everything fades away, except for the inevitability of choice and procedural action, except for the need and need for transformation—transition. But not in a struggle.
HOW TO RECOGNIZE THIS NEED AND NOTE IT?
HOW TO STOP FIGHTING AND SURRENDER TO THE IRREVERSIBILITY OF THE TRANSITION?
AND WHY DOES WHAT NO LONGER EXISTS STRIVE TO MANIFEST ITSELF?
HOW CAN SOMETHING THAT NO LONGER EXISTS BRING SOMETHING TO LIFE?
memory.
Non-existence at any cost will win the attention of the subject and unprecedentedly demand its manifestation-into-the-world, its transition to a different quality. The potential of its intentionality and desire to bring itself to the surface, to cross the border in order to discover itself in a new quality, is inexhaustible. It can declare itself so violently, break in and tear apart its being so much that even the possibility of an outcome in the form of the complete disappearance of the subject and the eradication of any life will not stop it.
However, the obsessive pursuit of this process on a spiritual level is a rather extreme expression of the situation.
Limitation and transition from one form to another are carried out at different levels of the human being, one of which is the body, which is capable of taking on colossal volumes of experiences and feelings—with which, for example, our non-reified, incorporeal internal structures cannot cope—preserving and freezing them inside themselves in the form of memory.
The body is such a category of our incarnation that is unconditional and unprecedented in its depth and accuracy memory; this is the reservoir that literally stores everything.
all the imprints of extremely influenced events.
movement sketches.
birth cry and its breath.
rupture of deep unity with the creator and giver of life.
everything that is the very first. cognition of the pleasant and disgusting.
reminiscences of everything experienced and long gone.
all the ways of action, interaction, manifestation.
every horror. every loss. every delight.
every sunset. every sunrise. sight.
imprint of everything, everyone, former, past, distant,
no longer existing in the present, dead to consciousness
and impossible even to be reborn in the here-and-now.
The body is the loss of connection with the fundamental.
The loss of eternity and boundlessness.
The loss of infinity and lack of the need to separate and differentiate.
Total alienation with fleeting possibilities of contact and connection. The loss of substantial involvement, constant knowledge.
The loss of transcendence.
Wherein. The body is a signifier of the loss of connection with the fundamental principle, but the acquisition of isolation and independence. The loss of eternity and boundlessness, but the emergence of the opportunity to act and create. The loss of infinity, but the acquisition of creation. The loss of unity, but the acquisition of individuality and selfhood. The loss of substantial involvement, but the emergence of ownership and presence. Loss of the possibility of constant knowledge, but the appearance of diversity, complexity, creativity, multivariance of meanings. The loss of transcendence, but the acquisition of relentless aspiration.
the body coexists in close relationship with everything implicit within us.
it contains and transmits a layer of invisible material
that does not exist in the present.
it is a kind of call for the translation of non-existence into being,
to accomplish the impossible.
The relentless and enduring striving can be colored by eternal, undifferentiated melancholy and existential confusion, but at the same time and because of this, it is also the driving force towards discovering the meaning of overcoming, exposing non-existence, and making the transition.
WHAT IS TRANSITION?
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF OVERCOMING?
HOW TO EXPOSE THE INVISIBLE AND MANIFEST IT?
HOW TO DISCOVER WHAT IS NOT IN THE HERE-AND-NOW?
Surprisingly, non-existence can be silent for a long time in the space of the macro- or microcosm, as if they have an unspoken agreement about when and in what coordinates of the space-time situation it is necessary and will have to begin to demand its appearance-manifestation and detection. This moment usually comes in relevant conditions and when there is a potential for denunciation and implementation, a potential for generation and transition.
In the absence of internal meta-discourse and resistance, signals and intensity increase to be noticed. It can be initiated by any other incarnation, any manifestation of movement and life around.
The desire for realization and the power of the intention of the non-manifested is so strong that one of the ways of its embodiment can be the total disappearance of the subject, if, for example, the struggle is no longer possible, and when a person realizes his defeat, losing himself, he also loses faith.
fading.
extinction.
loss.
Death. It can be one of the ways out in cases of extreme unbearability and complexity of the task. Walking on the border between two such powerful impulses—death and life. Non-existence and being. Defeats and resurrections. Disappearance and complete cessation of suffering and the required efforts of the spirit, overcoming—and the attraction to the first sometimes becomes almost irresistible. Merciless Thanatos.
It’s necessary to gain faith and the desire to overcome, making it the only possible option to make the second choice.
BUT HOW CAN WE OBTAIN WHAT IS WASTED AND LOST?
HOW CAN WE BECOME MOTIVATED FOR LIFE WHEN THE CRAVING FOR DEATH HAS ALREADY WON,
WHEN ONLY DISAPPEARANCE IS CONCEIVABLE?
Searching may also not be possible. But if there is still a feeling of the internal inconsistency of polar, counter-current impulses, then there is also ontological intentionality.
orientation. an effort. search.
the need to notice.
to see. to feel. to recognize.
The paradox of human nature is that in order to find faith, one must first believe that it can be found. To feel that the possibility of finding it is always there, even in total immobility, paralysis, and weakness of the inner life, even in extreme alienation from the world.
And then turn to that native and immanent ability within oneself, which makes it possible to overcome it, which will respond to the challenge of entering the (post)boundary space, and not to the multiplication of non-existence.
it’s possible to notice and feel potentiality
even when
one doesn’t have such an aim and possibility.
The thrill of presence and being-in-the-world, contacting with it, has a fundamental ontological status and can be designated as one of the substantial phenomena of human nature, which exists independently of us, as long as ego sum qui sum.
As long as I exist, there is also an opportunity to hear this flickering, even in the overwhelming silence of chaos, even in the frightening silence of the darkness.
The shimmer of awe has an immanent nature and is inherent in it natively. When connecting with it, establishing a connection, in the presence of proper susceptibility and sensitivity, the processes of uncovering the potential and energy of the spirit are involuntarily and simultaneously initiated, which are necessary to overcome the pain of a fracture and generate a subjectively new one.
but the unseen and the invisible, the indeterminate, is the call to becoming,
to the translation of non-existence into being, to the proactivity of that subject
who has a specific experience,
as well as a call for a meeting with the invisible and unknown of those subjects
who do not have such experience.
Confrontation and opposition to the release of tension and charge hidden in the twilight of non-existence, as well as the process of overcoming, becoming, the intensity of living them, the implementation of the efforts required for this can be felt like a permanent borderline situation intensified by fear from the realization of the courage necessary for comprehending and creating, the fortitude required for «falling up.»
endless necessity of overcoming.
non-stop fluctuations of faith and clarity.
inescapable life of opposite principles and tearing tendencies.
incessant diminution of the very possibility of being.
fear of dissolution, disappearance, victory of chaos.
horror at the escape of meaning. visibility. binary.
The acuteness and complexity—and sometimes unbearable—of experiencing life as a permanent borderline situation, at the same time, can awaken a lot. At the same time, along with the awakening of that much, it is assumed that enormous efforts are being made, the need for tireless sense-formation and proactivity, incessant discovery, living, awareness of the singularity of one’s existence in the world and, finally, the manifestation of willpower and the strength of one’s self.
Isolation and alienation, and forced separation become important processes for shaping, finding and exposing strength, and getting to know and knowing one’s spirit.
(Self-)redefinition, self-consciousness, affirmation of meaning at every minute, exposure of internal spaces and structures are based on singularity, separation, deepening and re-examination each time of one’s loneliness, a one-on-one meeting with the world. After meeting and comprehending true unity with being, a deep knowledge of one’s ontological status and existence, and the same deep sensual affirmation of (co)participation and (co)existence, and deep joy become possible.
I’m leaving to know the authenticity of experience for the millionth time
and forge the uncreated consciousness in the forge of my soul […].
James Joyce
To meet myself for the millionth time. Comprehend a meeting with the world.
Organize chaos. Illuminate the darkness. Detect the spirit.
Quiet the silent cry of the doom.
Initiate becoming. Overcome the division of being.
To transform tearing opposites and deaf emptiness into meaning and unity, absence into presence.
Having lost the self, forge yourself anew, gaining a lot and knowing.
BUT WHAT TENSION CAN WE BEAR?
WHAT QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF INTERNAL CREATION AND WHAT INTENSITY OF THE EFFORT IS NECESSARY AND POSSIBLE FOR OUR BODY AND SPIRIT?
WHAT CHARGE OF NON-EXISTENCE ARE WE READY TO TRANSFORM?
DO WE HAVE FREEDOM, OR IS IT A FORCED STRIVE DETERMINED BY BEING AS SUCH?
WHAT ARE WE ABLE TO WITHSTAND BEFORE REACHING THE AFFECT AND MANIFEST UNTIL COMPLETE SELF-DESTRUCTION?
Accurate and vivid memory is the ability of the body to contain what is happening, carefully leaving traces of it in its space. In this case, the question of one of the sources of non-existence becomes more understandable — it can be the body itself.
The body initiates development, determines it, acts as the root cause of enduring changes.
a body—it is a postulate of loneliness and disunity.
a body—
it is a limitation of temporal and spatial freedom,
but at the same time—the possibility of multiplying and expanding the spirit itself.
The body is the source of many restraints and limitations in life. In general, this is the main limitation because it is the measure of time, if not the very substance of temporality, the vessel for its existence. But also a vessel for the existence of the spirit. The body is at the same time the intention to develop and the possibility to do it. It gives a lot of restrictive constructs and tasks to overcome, but the phenomenon of corporeality simultaneously allows you to act, transform, be proactive and create.
sometimes it seems that if a body could speak,
it, possibly, would say:
"I am a rope stretched between temporality and timelessness—
rope over the abyss. dangerous to pass, dangerous to be on the road, dangerous to look
back, dangerous fear and stop.
what matters in me is that I am a bridge, not a goal:
in me, you can love only that I am a transition and death."
The creativity of the body in tandem with the deep layers of the psyche is hugely multifaceted. The obscurity, mystery, and ambiguity of the genesis of certain sensations, processes, phenomena, impulses that are entirely different and have a diverse palette of differentiation of states—the ability to broadcast signs and signals that are sometimes not amenable to material and rational indications, which just act as those very hints at the designation of that same not designated.
At the same time, this tandem in the form of a phenomenon of corporality is also a significant assistant in noticing, realizing the unmanifested, giving birth to a new one, and increasing, multiplying being.
BUT HOW MUCH CAN THE BODY BEAR?
DOES IT GET STRONGER AS A RESULT OF LIVED EXPERIENCE?
WHAT TIME DOES IT MEASURE?
Initially, we may even feel bewildered by the fact that the body is obviously not getting stronger. The body is transient—bearing the character of a source of extremely different layers of ideas, abilities, and phenomena, limited in time and space—it is depleted, gradually disappearing, while increasing the world and vitality, decorating it with the help of opportunities to realize all the intangible messages and intentions of a person.
With the exhaustibility of experiments, the body also exhausts itself, as if it becomes thinner with the fulfillment of tasks, as if it is imprisoned to serve as a source of non-existence and decrease in proportion to the amount given and transformed. And the more effort this birth and transformation requires, the more the body fades and tarnishes.
the body, in general, is the harbinger and sign of death.
it is living death. but death is relentlessly transforming into life.
it is temporality tending to timelessness.
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In situations where the body contains accelerated time, cannot give a variety of abilities and experiences, when it is damaged or has minimal possibilities for transforming and generating something on its own—there is still the possibility of cognition and expansion, the initiation of creativity and (with) involvement, intensification of spirituality in others.
The designated situational field contributes to the understanding and redefinition of transcendentals, contextual development, and appears as a proposal for clarifying and deepening a variety of discourses and intentional spaces.
When every day is colossal overcoming, the situation can bring into the feeling of life being a characteristic of intolerance and impossibility, an uninterrupted borderline situation. Why can this appear and acquire a real character of the desire for self-destruction, self-damage, and self-destruction—constant re-traumatization of the Self and the body—the desire to destroy oneself along with intolerance. And even when such stories have quite precise and clear indications that can be attributed, it does not always mean the same clarity of efforts and the complexity of their inner living for others. And in situations and phenomena that cannot be marked and differentiated due to the lack of a visible indication for them, sensitivity and receptivity, (co-)involvement on the part of others can be even more difficult. Owing to the lack of designations for such and similar states, which others can operate in order to establish connection and experience understanding, there is an increase in isolation and alienation—on the internal, and, accordingly, after a while, on the external level—of that subject whose specificity of experience does not lend itself to unambiguous indication.
The intensification of singularity, isolation, disunity, and alienation, the painful, traumatized, and distorted opposition of oneself to the world, oneself to others, the feeling that something external, generated by the internal, and unclear for identification by the subject himself, is greater and stronger than the Self, than the immanent self—they begin to require colossal efforts of the spirit even to reveal the desire to overcome. After all, what charge is accumulated and embedded in non-existence, if it has the potential and power to transform itself into life, if it contains a sign of being in emptiness?
In this case, the strength of the spirit becomes almost the only support of the subject, almost the only engine for overcoming, especially when the conditional world, in the form of others, is not receptive to what is happening. At the same time, this contributes to the expansion of understanding of others, the generation in the subject himself of new spaces-for-others.
one of the forms of such spaces is art.
Non-existence is understood not only as something that no longer exists in the here-and-now in the form of an endless traumatic narrative, which, in part, like a bad infinity, repeats endlessly, has its own laws, the similarity of properties at different levels, triggers the same processes and the same feelings until this something, whose signifier is narrative, is transformed and manifested in a form that is relevantly built into the being of the subject and enters the world congruently. The mechanism described here is suitable not only for the traumatized fragments of a once existing being but also for the poeticization of many other processes. Non-existence also means other substances, unmarked constructs, unmanifested symbols hidden in the world.
As Plato wrote, everything that causes the transition from non-existence to being is creativity.
The giving of life, the introduction into the world of something hitherto invisible and invisible, unmanifested, the transformation of non-existent into being or being into otherness—is creation.
It happens that non-existence slumbers deep inside—silently present, it will manifest itself in the form of the subtlest reflections on interaction with the world, on interaction with others, in the form of shades and reflections of internal spaces that must be transformed and rethought.
And when the implementation of the transition comes from a necessity generated by intolerance and once traumatized by being, longing for transformation and the opportunity to return to selfhood and integrate into the very essence of the subject, to complete it, shades of compulsion and fixation on a self-closed system, on necessity, will most likely be visible and noticeable. Regain your Self at a meeting with yourself and in art.
until the inner root non-existence is translated into existence —
it will leave an imprint on everything that happens in creativity
and in every minute creation of life.
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But for any true creation of something, creation, generation and creation, the incessant work of the spirit is needed, for any meeting, courage is needed, as well as recognition of one’s corporeality, the need and importance of «thinking with the body,» as Nietzsche said.
physicality is the possibility of transition and the transition between
transcendentalism and the transcendent, a bridge between these categories.
physicality—it is potentiality, the possibility of meeting, the possibility of cognition of universal philosophical categories ((transcendentals)—)—an attempt to overcome temporality and
the desire for timelessness.
Action and giving life to something is possible thanks to the body—it is both the cause and the possibility of overcoming, and the determinant of the boundary situation of our existence, and the transition itself.
Paradoxically, the body is both the substantial cause of continuous overcoming and the possibility of its implementation. It makes us grow and develop ((at the same time, it is also a pointer to where to grow and what to develop in, it will always tell the direction of intentionality),), to meet a lot, to live overcoming, and to create the conditions and experience of it, and at the same time makes living possible.
A body—the postulate of loneliness and disunity, the source of all limitations, but at the same time the fundamental desire for (co-)participation and unification.
It, determining our limitability and temporality, is at the same time what makes it possible to detect (post)boundary spaces, the implementation of proactivity, every time and every moment putting before us the question of choice and creating the possibility of overcoming ourselves and moving into a new space.
Awareness of this, acquaintance with one’s spirit, and, as a result, recognition of the importance and significance of the phenomenon of corporality gives an awareness of an enduring possibility—always abiding in the here-and-now—exit into (post)boundary space, as well as the enduring possibility of translating non-being into being, discovering an infinitely and boundlessly new, constant self-knowledge and exploration of oneself, others and the world, oneself-through-the-world-and-through-others and the world-through- myself.
When creativity in translating inner non-existence is exhausted, when the most challenging meeting has been made—with oneself and with the sharpest non-being within oneself—a meeting with the world becomes possible. Possessing the skill of incessant inner labor and (re)formation, we learn to notice the hidden and invisible, the indeterminate in the world, to manifest it and expose other meanings—new constructs, contexts, and fields in the form of art.
Any creation bears the imprint and spirit of the time embedded in it, combined with the time of non-existence and its released charge. With due sensitivity and knowledge and experience of transition, a person can read those layers and categories of a work that are hidden and have become non-existent. Revelation and meeting, in this case, can be more intense and saturated with transcendence.
Non-existence, these fragments and parts, also striving for unity and integration, are capable of a lot. This uncertainty and chaos, striving to be ordered, can distort and terribly deform time-space and even the perceived world, changing the course and flow of processes and structures. What potential should be in it in order to change one of the most conventional constructs of human life—the very measure of its duration. But it is important to understand and comprehend the fact that where non-existence—both truth and eventual «chaosmos» are hidden there, which has an infinite potential for meaning formation and a multitude of multivariate meaning generations. And already manifested in the form of a new form and otherness, it exposes a field consisting of disjunctive judgments and meanings but woven into a single integral system and configuration, reconciling mutually contradictory tendencies. It reflects processuality and extension, temporality and timelessness, singularity and generality, border and transition, transcendence and limit, transience and eternity. It becomes a space where contradictory and paradoxicality turns into beauty, magnificence, poetry, and a pure consonant sphere.
BUT HOW DOES THIS TRANSITION WORK?
HOW IS «CHAOSMOS» FORMED AND HOW DOES THE GENERATION OF MEANING BECOME POSSIBLE?
The specificity of a particular subjective experience is sometimes impossible to extrapolate and steadily determine to assign a specific definition, but it is always possible to strive to comprehend such.
Feelings that are not amenable to indication and that do not have external attributions are sometimes impossible to convey and represent so that the world can favor modification and the necessary metamorphosis.
When public methods are not suitable nor have helped in the transformation of only some part, some layers of a polysyllabic layer, the increasing isolation in such a situation, both internal and external, can serve as a sign and indication not only of what needs to be expressed, but also of what that the implementation of the transition, in this case, requires more time, more reflection, more subtle and unique approach—a particular path and the formation of a new meaning, which conforms and creates both the original (post) boundary space and other being.
This also requires greater receptivity on the part of others, finding meanings and meeting-with-the-world-through-the-other; it is an intention and impulse to increase (co)involvement and (co)creativity, and possibly to (world)creativity, (co)formation, to greater involvement and a joint creative act, the creation of new meanings.
If this does not happen, then the ensuing widespread silence and the all-encompassing silence of the frozen world become an opportunity for a person to «leave in order to know the authenticity of experience for the millionth time and forge a new form in the forge of his soul,» to carry out the transition and becoming, to create his own (post)boundary space.
silence. quietness. still
is the knowledge of eternity.
Borderline experiences awaken, expand, transform, revive, initiate. Withstanding tension, collision with non-existence, confrontation, the need to transform huge layers of metaphysical material, discover meanings, acquire being in non-existence, existing in non-existent—give rise to the same vast volumes of new forms, release colossal amounts of energy.
Of course, in the process of such an experience, the unbearability of an uninterrupted boundary situation can turn into an affect, as into an expression of a limit.
Tension from painful experiences can lead to acute affect not only for the (experiencing) person but also for others ((which is publicly demonstrated and clearly visible, for example, in the performative studies of Marina Abramovic and Chris Burden—when, in some performances, the audience ceased to withstand, and some viewers fell into states of affect, different in different performances, and made attempts to stop the action and stop the experience lived in the here-and-now by the artist).).
But overcoming such an experience, giving life to non-existence, allows you to gain a lot. The transition to the (post)boundary space means the flourishing of life with even greater or new strength, the release of the boundless and boundless, the expansion of the spirit and acquaintance with it, causing the expansion of everything else, self-determination, the implementation of proactivity. Finding (post)boundary spaces means becoming.
awakening and manifesting much, we gain much.
we will be able to find our sound,
to hear (consonant with) the sonority of the world,
expose unexplored facets,
reconcile the divided and the disunited.
we will gain the opportunity to live (out) differently.
we learn the joint creation of new meanings
and understanding, seeing the other.
As long as there is non-existence—there is also existence.
As long as we can think it—we are alive and can create.
When all of it is translated into being, the body will also be exhausted, giving all the resources for transformation.
Our task is to notice the non-existent in time, to be able to observe it, freely let it in, strive to know and comprehend it, and perceive it as creativity, creation, and affirmation of ourselves and being-in-the-world, realization and disclosure—and this is the beginning of the path that will make it possible to transmit the inexpressible into the world.
openness to meeting the invisible and inexpressible.
the need for meaning.
the will to «fall upwards.»
courage and courage to comprehend, overcome,
encounter with suffering, existential confusion,
with chthonic and elemental fear,
readiness for defeat, but also for resurrection.
there are indispensable conditions for the constitution
and expansion of the discourse of (post) boundary.
Such a path contains the most significant and complex intentionality of human nature, which determines and generates the possibility of transposing a human being to the limits of consciously imaginative sensory experience and crossing these limits, discovering (post)boundary spaces that release new and more expressive, deep, meanings and contexts of the human being, and, finally, the possibility of acquiring and knowing the deep joy of meeting, the comprehension of revelation, and new creativity.
Victoria Morgunova, from the series liminality./of/.transition, 2022
Photography, computer graphics
Courtesy of the artist