Diegesis
By on April 3, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0)
I think it is infinitely important to know why we create. I “struggled” (to coin evangelical Christian jargon) for some time on the ethics of showing my art to people in terms of motivation and purpose. I have been able to find enough peace to cope (being in school and having to show my work) with the idea that we, humans, communicate to survive. My communication usually comes in the form of long periods of silence which result in these explosions/revelations that I spew at the kind people around me who will listen. I get this sense of urgency and, given the right audience, I hand out the jewels of my soul. I think it all comes down to the appeal of secrets, whose appeal is found in the revelation and the choice of that revelation. So even if it is unethical or disappointing to share, it seems inevitable.
That said, I think Gordon Winiemko is onto something here in an article titled Let me Tell you something: Why I like Movies Better than Art:
Diegesis on the other hand, is the communicative process of telling something. And, while to show something might imply communication – that is, the need to have someone to show something to, and thereby complete the process – doesn’t showing smack of narcissism? Narcissus didn’t fall in love with a story about himself, he fell in love with his reflection.
Maybe the disappointment is in the showing, something is lost in the reflection. I think this is why the new forms of art in this starving generation are attempting, with every effort of technology, to make art increasingly more present. The hunger for communication and connection is making sweet art (ways to push society forward) with interaction or performance, sound, anything live. I love it.
I think the most beautiful act of the human self is the act of trying. It is not in the result, because the result is never what you want it to be and by the time you reach the result it is over. It is past. But the trying, man, that is the pulse. It’s all we’ve got.
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