| Information | I am an artist, musician, writer, philosopher, and film-tutor currently writing my masters on the NZ experimental film-maker Joanna Margaret Paul. I am passionate about the experience of art, and the way in which we experience the experience of art. Philosophy for me is the division between being and becoming, between ontology and phenomenology. This is the difference between saying something "is" (that art "is" being crap, that art "is" being good) to saying something is always in a process of "becoming," to keep your own view always shifting, appreciating rather than judging.
Ontology is the theory of what is "really there," what is being the same for all. Phenomenology is the study of the interior of being, a pure affect. Between them is the study of "noology" which I dedicate most of my time to (see Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus). I do not agree with a "one" way art theory, a "that's the way it is" attitude. No art is completely one or the other, it is always becoming. Take Shortland Street, a NZ soap-opera, for example. I always hear people saying how "shit" it is, but how can we maintain this position absolutely. There are a lot of scenes/statements produced for Shortland Street: are they all crap? When we make binary decisions we lose experience.
My art and writings are also on Deviant Art, a site I would also highly recommend, which I have put below as my website. Unfortunately my actual website is off-line at the moment. Usually this displays me and my wifes art collection, and Solar Philosophy. My partner, Robyn Kenealy, produces an amazing comic called "Roddy McDowall's Film Companion". |
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