UBIQUITOUS SITE * NAGI’S RYOANJI * ARCHITECTURAL BODY

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"Beginning," "past," "future," "I," "me," and "you" are all words that have no place in this process. They are superfluous.

As if magnetized, the body, moving in a veering, unbalanced balance, loses all sense of identity, or casts the little that remains of its identity as a person, outside itself. The person who entered the cylinder on her own volition ceases now to be the initiator of her own actions. There is no single initiator of actions to be found. Symmetry should be able to supplant identity, and, sure enough, it can and does do this. In compliance with the objects and juxtapositions that prompt them to exist, perceptual, imaging and architectural landing sites have been symmetrically aligned; they now initiate actions and instigate events. If the body proper loses its bearings within this symmetrically organized container, it is up to all the landing sites arrayed throughout the entire interior of the cylinder plus the visitor’s body proper, functioning palpably in combination as an "architectural body," to institute a new set of bearings. This is also how things go in the normal course of events, although generally the number and diversity of the initiating sites involved in each action stand unrevealed.

Eternity is an ancient and foolish dream or construction. Learning how not to die is, of course, an entirely different matter. Step into Ubiquitous Site · Nagi’s Ryoanji · Architectural Body to learn how not to die.

Nagi, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art

Size: 30' x 70' cylinder.