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We are, always-already, here Alva Noë’s Varieties of Presence in Relation…

- - - - "Events"
        
        Yoko Ono's Cut Piece
        
        John Cage's 4'33"
        
        Nam June Paik's TV Cello performed by Charlotte Moorman
      - Blurring the lines between art and life
        
        What's the boundry
        
        What can it be
        
        What's the essence of art making
      - Improvised
        
        Random
        
        DIY attitude
        
        Chances
        
        Accidents
  - - - Rhythmic pattern of our lives
        
        Daily activities, something that we do everyday,
        
        But such characterisation captures the very essence of the EVERYDAY
        
        Commonplace
        
        Downright nothing special
    - - A space for me to experience, investigate, examine, or identify what I’ve been taken for granted
        
        What remains hidden or conceals in my existence?
  - - - Soothing sensation of linen against the skin
      - Pleasant smell of oven-fresh pastries
      - calming sound of chopping cabbage
      - Heavenly taste of fatty toro
      - Relaxing feeling of meditation
      - Can be anything (as ordinary as one can name)
  - - - eating a a meal
      - beginning a conversation via a lingua franca
      - turning the very first page of book
      - having a first glance of an artwork
      - any other situations that has a sort of following structure
      - They are intrinsic to initiating the aesthetic experience and shaping the stream of our daily lives.
        
        John Dewey: in the very process of living (Chapter 3, p.356)
- - - - 2.2.4 ready-to-hand vs present-at-hand
        
        ready-to-hand
        
        within a context of use
        
        hammer
        
        not to deconstruct it but treat it as an equipment to carry out tasks
        
        to hammer a nail
        
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        present-at-hand
        
        relationship of location, between objects
        
        the exhibition space
        
        when the visitor is focusing on the projection
        
        one seems to also have the slightest sense of the surrounding
        
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        Once something is encountered, present at hand shifts to ready-to-hand
        
        through readiness
        
        form understanding of our world in time and space
      - 2.2.5 Spatiality, de-severance
        
        literal translation: abolishing of remoteness or distance
        
        "...opening up a space in which things can be near and far." (Hubert L. Dreyfus, Chapter 7 pp.130)
        
        The physical presence of the surroundings is closer to the viewer
        
        The individuals in the frames (remoteness) are in fact brought to close
        
        present-at-hand
        
        to engage meaningfully with the world
  - - - “…all perceptual presence is presence as absence” (p.95)
  - - - Achieve through thinking?
        
        Could be out of sight
        
        What he calls Extended Perception
    - - Consciousness?
        
        The world is not simply available; it is achieved rather than given.
        
        Exploration through which we achieve contact with the world.
      - “Perceptual presence is availability.” (p.19)
        
        Accesible, achieve perceptual contact
      - “…all perceptual presence is presence as absence” (p.95)
  - - - Its varieties is how we skilfully achieve access to our surrounding
    - - Thought active sensorimotor exploration, skilful understanding
        
        Therefore someone or something near and far can be perceptually experienced
      - Either it is something visible, hidden, out-of-view, exist in absent structure
        
        Pear in room example
        
        You can only see one face at a time
        
        Have sense of presence as a whole
        
        We visually experience more than what is visible
        
        Requires set of skills to achieve access to what there is
        
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        Have a sense of presence of the back
        
        But as absent
        
        The price of presence is a corresponding absence.
        
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- - - - Presence-in-absence Structure
        
        Varieties of Presence (p.44-45)
    - - Measure geographical distance
  - - - If two channel videos is used
        
        Hard to grasp the sychronization of time
      - Side-by-side
        
        Sense of ongoingness and togetherness
    - - To explore something far away
        
        Presence-in-absence structure
  - - - That extends beyond the frame, in relation to the space outside the screen
      - Periphery
      - Surface
- - - - Document via the conferencing software Zoom
        
        Cook pumpkin risotto concurrently
        
        That reminds us of each other
        
        Meaning in the making
        
        Dynamic of relationship
        
        Developing
        
        Boundaries
        
        Proximity
        
        Intimacy
        
        Located in different time zones and cities
        
        Our only connection is knowing that the other is doing the same thing together
        
        In front of the built-in cameras
        
        Physical distance
        
        Yet immediate digital distance
        
        Interplay of presence and absence
      - A muted dialogue
        
        Connection expands further than the geological limitation
    - - Zoom
        
        Side-by-side
        
        Me standing still, whereas she was driving a convertible on a scenic road, like a commerical.
        
        Absurd, non-sense