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Naked Infinity

Posted March 31st, 2011 by Lesley Hazleton

Sometimes you need a break from war and politics and religion.  Sometimes you just need to be very still and think about being human, or not even think about it, just contemplate it.  This photo made me do that:

It’s from a performance piece by the Japanese-American duo Eiko and Koma, reviewed in today’s NYT under the headline Poetry of Stillness, Stretched to Infinity:

A man and woman moving with glacial slowness on a mound of earth, feathers, sticks and vegetation doesn’t sound at all like an enthralling theatrical experience. But such is the almost inexplicable magic of “Naked: A Living Installation,” that watching two bodies inch toward and away from each other in infinitely tiny increments is an utterly absorbing, potent drama of time and space — endless in the moment, over before you know it.

Sounds like life to me.

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File under: art, existence | Tagged: Tags: Eiko and Koma, infinity, Japanese-American, performance art | 2 Comments
  1. Freind says:
    April 2, 2011 at 5:09 am

    ………… YOU CAN DELETE THIS COMMENT …………

    O Dear Lesley please, how you still didn’t got what religion means?
    Religion means being human, you can not break from religion. when we forgot god war happen. Religion means Prosperous life, it means peace, Trust. its means break from World problems when you start to talk to god in the middle of night when all of people sleep and When you’re connected to the infinite mercy of God this is Religion.
    Dear Lesley You have an unique and important difference between most people, that is you think and search (deeply) about what you see and hear and you are searching about the truth. This trait is excellent.
    Best

  2. Lesley Hazleton says:
    April 2, 2011 at 9:34 am

    Well, I might have deleted this comment if I wasn’t totally puzzled by why it was posted as a response to this photo of Eiko and Koma. And if I wasn’t horribly aware that religion is also used as a major rationale for war and hatred. And if I wasn’t far more concerned with the terrifying finiteness of human mercy than with any concept of infinite divine mercy.

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