http://www.dancetheaterworkshop.org/blog/2007/10/04/reality-and-its-likenesses/ Contemporary Dance Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:16:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.dancetheaterworkshop.org/blog/2007/10/04/reality-and-its-likenesses/#comment-5 smaxfield Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:22:30 +0000 http://www.dancetheaterworkshop.org/blog/2007/10/04/reality-and-its-likenesses/#comment-5 So many artists (including myself) are currently exploring the concept of multiple realities, string theory, and the idea that time is merely a construct of human perception. If artists really are the intuitive soothsayers of what is next for a culture, we may be approaching the discovery of a new world or two. "New" in the sense of that which Columbus discovered, which wasn't actually new at all, but entirely changed the world-view of those in the "old" world. If the European explorers of the 15th Century shattered the notion of a flat world, could we be getting close to shattering the idea that it's round? Is hyperbolic space the new land of opportunity, or are we artists simply rehashing what the physicists have been playing with for years? I'm gonna go with the idea that we're on to something. Zeitgeist, anyone? So many artists (including myself) are currently exploring the concept of multiple realities, string theory, and the idea that time is merely a construct of human perception. If artists really are the intuitive soothsayers of what is next for a culture, we may be approaching the discovery of a new world or two. “New” in the sense of that which Columbus discovered, which wasn’t actually new at all, but entirely changed the world-view of those in the “old” world. If the European explorers of the 15th Century shattered the notion of a flat world, could we be getting close to shattering the idea that it’s round? Is hyperbolic space the new land of opportunity, or are we artists simply rehashing what the physicists have been playing with for years? I’m gonna go with the idea that we’re on to something. Zeitgeist, anyone?

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