A Marker in Time…
Introduction to Living Skin
LivingSkin is a library/gallery/community space based on the experimentation of time and knowledge as it pertains to the individual.
September 13, 2023 — The Origin
September 13, 2023, jerome.hua.wang and reality.composer (previously nektine) (2/3 of The Lunchables Experience team) stumbled across a storefront, with the already pre-concieved hopes of moving into a space optimal for hosting events and experiences. They signed on the apartment immediately. They named the space 61Y, playing with the idea of the space as a marriage between gallery and library.
October 14, 2023 — Fall Retreat
Jerome and Reality embarked on a trip to Nyack, NY to clear minds and discover the meaning of 61Y.
Several scattered thoughts from the retreat:
- Art and expression is a response to temporality. Living Skin is an ecosystem in response to temporality.
- All things are temporary and fleeting, making all things connected by a single common denominator
- Connections should be cultivated, observed, preserved, documented, to fully realize their reality before they are gone.
- Everything can be framed, everything is touching, everything is an equal reaction to what has been, and what will be, all at once.
- What if we thought of words, text, and information in the same way gutai arts thinks of physical materials…
- Gutai Art claims we must positions ourselves as partners with matter. By controlling outward spirit and human projections, matter comes to meet it in a collaborative intertwining. Similarly, information and bases of knowledge can be viewed as matter. The form can be books, visual representations, digital file systems, abstract fine art, etc, and once they are “created”, we must acknowledge their creation was not done by man, but merely a transfer of energy and knowledge to another form — to create art is to acknowledge this and simply bring forth our spirit to greet it, whatever that looks like.
- Gutai Art claims we must positions ourselves as partners with matter. By controlling outward spirit and human projections, matter comes to meet it in a collaborative intertwining. Similarly, information and bases of knowledge can be viewed as matter. The form can be books, visual representations, digital file systems, abstract fine art, etc, and once they are “created”, we must acknowledge their creation was not done by man, but merely a transfer of energy and knowledge to another form — to create art is to acknowledge this and simply bring forth our spirit to greet it, whatever that looks like.
- Living Skin brings forth a sacred appreciation for knowledge and information, as if it’s matter itself. Living Skin indulges in a purist approach to preservation, discovery, expression, and progression.
- All work is always done to serve someone, it is never for no-one.
- Everything is cyclical, no motion is ever wasted
- The origin - organism - orgasm framework
- origin= beginning
- organism=during
- orgasm=ending
- origin= beginning
- Living Skin is an invitation to feed, cultivate, observe, an object of information, framed in living skin.
- To apply lessons of nature to seemingly unnatural things.
- Paving the way for information as bio-artifacts.
- Living Skin as an embodiment of immaturity and a response to the unknowing, as there is no such thing as pure mastery when put in relation to the universe.
All these ideas served as launching points to where Living Skin stands today.
Jerome and R.C. are still discovering what it means to hold a community space, library, and gallery all mashed into one, and have only started to step foot in the deep, deep world of epistemology.
The thought experiments continue, but they place a marker in this debut conclusion before carrying on…
Knowledge is a concept completely removed from the bounds of time that exists in a plane completely of its own, but we believe ideas are brought to life when they are first experienced.
Consider information and knowledge as it’s introduced to mankind, or the individual, and suddenly, the knowledge is bound to time, becoming temporal, finite, and having mortality, introducing the knowledge to a “finite” existence. Knowledge wrapped in these “membranes” of time resemble mortality, when bound by their introduction and relevance to an individual. By determining when knowledge is presented to us, relevant to us, and its lack there of, a beautiful temporal nature is placed upon that knowledge. The information will always be there, as fact is not in any way bound by time, but how interesting is our individual understanding and encounters of knowledge, and the timings of discovery.