Paslapčių kambarys/Room of secrets
What is a secret? What hides behind a secret? What, why and how does a man hide? Can it be that human mysteries are a repetition of the secret of Being? Is it possible by analizing man’s secrets to get to know something about Being?
In this project I draw upon the ontological metaphysical paradigm that Being is the biggest secret and the man, by virtue of being a part of Being, i.e. Dasein, repeats and reflects its composition, principles, and laws. Since Being is an eternal unknown and a “revealing wholeness”, I started investigating man’s secrets hoping through them to find out something about Being itself. Having noticed the tension that is created by man’s secrets and the need to reduce it – to unburden, I created a website www.sekretas.lt, where the visitors were invited to share their secrets. This platform became my research field. I have conducted a poll of the MA students of the Art Academy. Both the website and the poll confirmed the hypothesis that secrets create tension, and this tension conditions the need to unburden them. This was also confirmed by the installation “The Room of Secrets” that I created at the Cultural Marathon in 2014.
While researching the secrets entrusted to me, I discovered that the lack of Being creates Anxiety. Anxiety makes people break the rules, deconstruct the roles, violate the laws of the social. The result of these actions – the destructive information that we call secret. Thus behind a secret lies Anxiety about the lack of Being. Behind Anxiety lies Nothingness. And “pure Being and pure Nothingness are the same”. In this way of thinking we can fight Anxiety. Less Anxiety – more Being.
At the end of the research I come back to the beginning, where I remind that Bonvanture “does not care about the discourses explaining the meaning of Being – more important is what we have to be silent about.” (Merino 2000: 67). I note as the most valuable experience of the artistic research the discovery of thinking about Nothingness through Silence. Silence, as silent as it might be, always encompasses in itself non-silence – sound: crackling, rustling, bumping. It is Being, living in Nothingness.
What is a secret? What hides behind a secret? What, why and how does a man hide? Can it be that human mysteries are a repetition of the secret of Being? Is it possible by analizing man’s secrets to get to know something about Being?
In this project I draw upon the ontological metaphysical paradigm that Being is the biggest secret and the man, by virtue of being a part of Being, i.e. Dasein, repeats and reflects its composition, principles, and laws. Since Being is an eternal unknown and a “revealing wholeness”, I started investigating man’s secrets hoping through them to find out something about Being itself. Having noticed the tension that is created by man’s secrets and the need to reduce it – to unburden, I created a website www.sekretas.lt, where the visitors were invited to share their secrets. This platform became my research field. I have conducted a poll of the MA students of the Art Academy. Both the website and the poll confirmed the hypothesis that secrets create tension, and this tension conditions the need to unburden them. This was also confirmed by the installation “The Room of Secrets” that I created at the Cultural Marathon in 2014.
While researching the secrets entrusted to me, I discovered that the lack of Being creates Anxiety. Anxiety makes people break the rules, deconstruct the roles, violate the laws of the social. The result of these actions – the destructive information that we call secret. Thus behind a secret lies Anxiety about the lack of Being. Behind Anxiety lies Nothingness. And “pure Being and pure Nothingness are the same”. In this way of thinking we can fight Anxiety. Less Anxiety – more Being.
At the end of the research I come back to the beginning, where I remind that Bonvanture “does not care about the discourses explaining the meaning of Being – more important is what we have to be silent about.” (Merino 2000: 67). I note as the most valuable experience of the artistic research the discovery of thinking about Nothingness through Silence. Silence, as silent as it might be, always encompasses in itself non-silence – sound: crackling, rustling, bumping. It is Being, living in Nothingness.
