Resistance from objects
RI Kor
When we talk about resistance from objects, some of you may think of science, but what I'm going to talk about here may be deeply connected to that, but for the time being it's something that has nothing to do with science.
Resistance means that when we encounter various things, it allows us to clearly sense our current position and direction, and creates an opportunity for us to take new action.
Recently, I have come to think that this resistance may be extremely important.
Resistance, in short, comes from outside of yourself.
The word resistance may sometimes be used to describe resistance from within oneself directed outwards, but here resistance is something that is given to us from without.
Here is a sculpture. I stand in front of it, taking in with my entire body the sculpture's texture, volume, sense of fluidity and absolute stillness, and then I leave the exhibition.
The sculpture was a type of thing that had never existed in my world before, so seeing it changed the way I interacted with things. In other words, an object resists the flow of my daily life, and by accepting this, I change into a person I had never been before. In other words, resistance is proof that I have lived a certain moment.
Resistance from things makes me think and act in a new way. Resistance has changed my world. It has exceeded my expectations. Therefore, resistance can be said to be important and directly connected to my future.
Representation is thought of as the total expression of something that is placed in this field of resistance. Therefore, the history of representation can be said to be the record of a soul shaken by the resistance it faces.
Only through resistance does this vast world reach my soul.
At the Autumn Seminar on the History of Oriental Representations
Midzuho November 29, 1997
Sekinan Research Field of Language
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