{"id":2134,"date":"2012-06-03T23:40:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T20:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2013-04-11T15:11:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T12:11:36","slug":"be-my-guest-bill-viola-and-gaston-bachelard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/be-my-guest-bill-viola-and-gaston-bachelard\/","title":{"rendered":"Be my guest: Bill Viola and Gaston Bachelard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BE MY GUEST is a venue for others to share their art; I assemble between creators in my sitting room. Linear time and locality are not relevant.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Bill Viola<\/a><\/span><\/strong> is speaking about his video artwork, Ocean Without a Shore <\/em>– exhibited at Venice Biennale 2007. He points out the\u00a0link between the dead and the living; He connects the worlds through\u00a0water in a church; People are passing through a threshold of water, and perhaps they are transformed spiritually.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6-V7in9LObI<\/span><\/h3>\n

I am thinking about Jesus at Lake of Galilee, less than an hour from my home, two thousand and years ago, walking on water, making\u00a0miracles,\u00a0and still is – to many pilgrims who come here.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The French philosopher <\/span>Gaston Bachelard<\/span><\/a>, reflects on aspects of water as Matter in his book Water and Dreams<\/strong>.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>“Water is truly the transitory element. It is the essential, ontological metamorphosis between fire and earth.\u00a0 A being dedicated to water is being in a flux. He dies every minute; something of his substance is constantly falling away.” <\/em>[p.6]<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Sailing\u00a0upon the Nile, was\u00a0THE transformatory journey\u00a0of the Pharaohs to the next world of the dead.\u00a0As mostly desert – water was deeply rooted in the ancient Egyptian culture. Their votive boats are the ones I never miss in any archaeological museum.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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<\/span>Model of a Boat, Tomb of the chancellor. Nakhti at Assiout, (12th Dynasty)<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Even though we are fragile and in constant change, there is also a thread of repetition within humankind; The cycle of good and evil, the knowledge and erasing it, all are in moving in an endless spiral.<\/span><\/h3>\n

I wish to stream among a group of artists, such as Bill Viola, and cooperatively to revive ancient Alexandria’s library, as a metaphor of the human richness and ability to do good; To sail together to an imaginary transformational horizon and recreate a universal idea that was once a part of the world but was destroyed. <\/span><\/h3>\n

I wish to add the transformational water element to the library of Alexandria that was burnt by fire.<\/span><\/h3>\n

To alchemically heal and revive.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Reviving\u00a0 Ancient Alexandria library <\/a>–Proposal for international project, 2012<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Unfolding\u00a0of Alexandria’s\u00a0story\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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