CUnT-SPLICING THOUGHT-FORMS : Promiscuous Play with Quantum Physics and Spirituality
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Summary, in English
CUnT-SPLICING THOUGHT-FORMS — Promiscuous Play with Quantum Physics and Spirituality poses the following questions:
How does the process of cunt-splicing galvanize excited states—and the perversion inherent in both quantum and tantric systems?
And how can these paradoxical states be activated in artmaking—and to what end?
The first knot, background radiation, introduces the phenomena of excited states and the quantum/tantric domain of cunt-splicing. The second knot has GRAVITATIONAL RIPPLES (the Swedish memorial honoring the lives lost in the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004) at its core. This sensitive fieldwork speaks to the bending of space-time itself, investigating the concept of waves in relation to excited states. The third knot is rooted in works revolving around the neutrino particle. Propelled by my stay at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), as well as conversations with scientists from CERN and the Niels Bohr Institute, the work contains references to the historical records of physicist Wolfgang Pauli. The fourth knot looks at some of the string-figures that are woven into cunt-splicing, functioning as an additional cord between the first knot and the sixth. The fifth knot spins around the exhibition STRIPPED (2020–21) at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. STRIPPED can be viewed as an agitated and erogenous meditation on excited and exhausted states, colliding different concepts relating to energy, knowledge, and spirituality. The sixth and concluding knot proposes that an irreverent, double-tongued play has the potential to boost excited states in artistic practices. Much like un/holy instances of glossolalia that blurt out multitudes of bizarre revelations, excitation is an elevation of energy, a perverse and transformative process of radiation and decay. A cuntopology of spooky sensitizations and hard-core intimacies. In artmaking practices, an excited state is never done or undone. As such, cunt-splicing thought-forms can best be thought of as vessels of outrageous intimacies—a joining of spheric and fleshy matters.
Department/s
Publishing year
2021-11-18
Language
English
Publication/Series
Doctoral studies and research in fine and performing arts
Issue
27
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Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University
Topic
- Visual Arts
Keywords
- Artmaking
- Excited states
- Rope-work
- Thought-Forms
- Agential realism
- Quantum mysticism
- Tantra
Status
Published
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ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1653-8617
- ISBN: 978-91-8039-085-9
- ISBN: 978-91-8039-086-6
Defence date
16 December 2021
Defence time
10:00
Defence place
Inter Arts Center, Bergsgatan 29, 214 22 Malmö, https://lu-se.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HCnZG5GeQ6-_emkW_es3Hg
Opponent
- Siún Hanrahan (Professor)