thinking 'about' thinking

21:37:57) Jane Whitaker says:

- so the 'characters of the composition' introduce themselves draw the audience into the installation, suffering in the aftermath of some truth having been revealed -


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So for instance the opening scene,

The synopsis will therefore take the form initially of a series of scenes or tableaux that depict within the installation the idea of 'aftermath' For instance and I'm already in a fix we construct

that is a SCENE that presents - right and understand this I am only making a notation of my thoughts having returned from a 'walk' in which i have been deliberating on the problem of a SYNOPSIS - there is a differentiation here between the installation as a showcase for 'thinking about thinking' and in the first instance the installation as a showcase for thought. Thought as feeling as experience. What do we do with this?

(14:01:52) Jane Whitaker says:

This technique is repeated:

One of the characters then openly makes a 'claim' for instance,

A claim – that is the opening tableaux might have ARISTOTLE as the 'philosopher' in question where we are looking for an example an illustration [for the purposes of the performance] "fighting against the flux" looking for a definite abiding something.

We are looking here at the concept of form, as determined by Aristotle in the Metaphysics. Form is the essential entity of a thing's being just that thing which it is and of its being knowable and definable as such. And so just as the others might begin to be taking notice of this point of reference this........... claim ..........the installation starts up again [ perhaps a spit of text ] forcing the characters to adjust their positions, from the flow, into the flow.

(14:37:20) Jane Whitaker says:

Here we might have another clearing scene 2 or [the tableaux are in no particular order] ..............this is indistinct in itself what I mean is we are heading towards a tableaux – what we have here are a series of scenes /Scenes as clearings Scene 2. Form? Fighting against the flux? has this been established, do we collectively know this/ Form is the cause of entity (ouisa) of a thing's being just that thing which it is and of its being knowable and definable as such............. "But this means that the concept of form is inseperable from unity and self identity and we are thus led to the principle of contradiction as the "most certain of all principles" A definate abiding something...... We have established something then have we?

that the principle of contradiction becomes the origin and wellspring which thought cannot get behind or under or beyond and ...................Form is is the boundary of definition.


(17:16:07) Jane Whitaker says:

envisaged then as thinking about thinking in its construction, or is it operating currently as a portmanteau for our being identified by our thoughts. Oh Forget it.