#ourness

Artist Name: Royel Otis Labels: Ourness Location: Sydney, Australia Release Date: February 16, 2024 Tags: indie pop, indie rock

part 5

#Communication and #publicness is a never-ending process, well as long as there are subjects dwelling not so freely in this space which we share, in the public. Our “nessness” (creation of the shared self, through communication) in the public is the “ourness”. (Two new hermeneutical concepts created just because we can. Although language is controlled, it is ultimately the only free form of expression. it can be written in the sand and no commodities are needed for its realisation. If read before the waves pull it in to the ocean and understanding is reached, it develops freely, conditioned only by “ourness”, our “sharedness” or so institutionally put “publicness”). This the battleground for creation, where subjects are forged in the name of values expressed by public funding, the politics of the self in the realm of art. Lets be frank, knowledge, that mysterious shaper of subjects is not without directed agency, it is not incorporating all and ever present shared values. No, it’s the opposite of that, a constant moving of subjectivities in different directions, driven by different contesting values, steered by underlying agendas. Lets change the subject and in our minds for a moment, travel far away or just around the corner if your are so lucky. We are siting with our hands buried in the sand looking at the star, that warms us in the day and in the night, as it slowly greets us with its beauty for a last time this day. This moment we share with the one subject of our choice, whom we preferably are all alone in the universe with for that moment. (Well there is always a lonely sorry ass bastard that would say. - I don’t like to be on a dreamy beach, and I don’t find sunsets or sharing a moment of peace with someone I cherish more than myself, at least in some moments in life, desirable. These persons are estimably 1% of the population, and thus have no democratic power in this discussion, so lets leave them out). Why this trip, you might ask. We now carry memories of shared values that most would understand as good and desirable. And isn’t that knowledge, does that creates “publicness”? 

Lets leave the romance and return to our discussion, about  “public space” (abstract in general), ”public place” (concrete and mapped), battled in the realm of communication. Well its is because it is not a topic of publicness, as there is no battle, its already won, 99% of us have decided for the same value. Many of Olafur Eliasson art projects would possibly move in the realm of this non-publicness. I.e. his artistic expressions are already valued as core common understandings in our “nessness” or “ourness”, even if his sunsets are artificial, sunsets still (more people have made decent against this creation, than against the real experienced phenomenon). But there are so many other and more complex desires in our reality, creating the human condition. So we can sediment that desire, is a core condition for understanding communication and its further creation of “publicness”. We desire and we are driven by ever contested opposing values. These are most often hidden (primarily in the creation of an artistic space, as the semiotics of expressed creativity are driven by elitist hermeneutics, even though its epistemological origins is banal and common. Sorry we correct ourselves, the true elite that govern this planet do not understand these semiotics more than the working class, so the issue of distinction is hermeneutical or one of cultural and social capital and to some extent symbolic capital) only decoded in active communication. Thus Habermas has uncovered a crucial character in the creation of public space, that it is an active process of decoding and recoding. The published needs to create movement, we could call an object that measures this creation of the public, a movement meter. Thus we can clearly see that the other movement meter that one by Olafur Eliassson is far from the simple romanticisms of nature or science, but expresses underlying meanings that are not shared. But hidden and only brought to light if one decodes the ether of that particular “public place” of expression, redefining “publicness”. Shared, the decodification of the public is created by communication and language, it has an epistemological and hermeneutical “immaterial body” (discourse) and a “material body”, space/place (object/commodity), it is “publishedness”, it is the “public space”, it is “ourness” and the “nessness”, (when reading this text humour is an essential hermeneutical tool for decoding). 

#letsnotcommunicate #sunset #inthelandoftheblindtheoneeyedisking