Notes on Where does one thing end and the next begin

• Ontological and epistemological positions
• Language made text quite hard to read/ comprehend from the outset
• 'Entire universe could be considered as the composit of the infinite number of endings and beginnings that are negotiated and renegotiated'
• 'What constitues the world around is not the nature of materials themselves but the differences between the?' - 'collage - elemental difference between materials, objects, images and subjects'
• Collage 'two or more distinct bodies collide', 'literal and metaphorical glueing of things'
• Greek- chimera, illiad. Human/lion/goat/fire. Pestilence and disaster. 'Represents our fear regarding difference' 'Goats, lions and even snakes usually represent bravery and cunning'
• Ding Q Lê - 2 vietnams- western perspective and reality
• Chapman brothers explore the blended body
• 'Chimera used in genetics to define a viable organism containing multiple genetic strains that originate from more than one zygote'
• 'Ergonomics- the edge is deployed to comfort and reassure' eg. Prosthetics
• Linder collages - man and machine but not necessarily blissful harmony- destroys the comfortable ergonomic edge
• 'Not all edges occur at the discreet point where the previous distinct body and object usually collide'
• Thomas Demand uses the edge to create illusion
• Camouflage relies on the dissaperance of edges. Predators in wild utilise subterfuge
• 'Camouflage is a response to the notion of difference in its most literal forms'
• Corrosion at an edge- interaction and degredation of originally distinct materials'
• Edges eg. Political boundaries
• Los angeles river- manipulated edge - industrialised landscape - 'commanding impulse over boundary'
• 'Individual consumed by city'
• Municipal edge - 'it has no room for us yet we are drawn to it because it is ours' - collage on grandest scale, collective societal college

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