New Perspectives - Part II

Video by LIA, 2022. 1920 x 1080, 1 min.

To learn something new we have to line up everything in front of us: the things we know against the things we want to know, alongside the things that we cannot yet grasp. We move in, deeper, closer, looking and absorbing, turning ourselves and our conceptions over to try and incorporate the new into what we already understand. Proximity overlays ideas until they blend. Horizons collapse, twist together, tease and tear themselves apart. When it works we emerge from our encounter with novelty at a place where we can once again see everything lined up in front of us: what we knew before, alongside and intermingled with what we have learnt in our intimate encounter with the new. // Text: Damian Stewart