- Bild/idé: Henrik Frisk
- Bild/idé: Henrik Frisk
Introduktion
Connect - brain/body conversations
"Man is One and indivisible. He thinks with his belly; he feels with his thinking" (Iannis Xenakis 1959).
An historical rational attitude in Western culture has tried to substitute the World with the description of the World. Science has provided immense benefits for human beings, but Technique has exceeded its initial goal - solving problems and improving life - becoming the trigger of new non-essential needs, resolving its own existence and predominance, in this bulimic tautology. So forth body and brain have gradually become disconnected. This situation has created a dramatic sense of incertitude in Western people.
The two main containers of "the irrational" of the last three centuries - Institutional Faith and Science - don't seem to be enough anymore. Profit seems to be the only word everybody understands now; but it doesn't have anything to do neither with Spirit nor with intelligence of life. There is a serious need for thinking and - we would say - of doing, around this alarming vacuum.
Luca Francesconi
Professor of composition at Malmö Academy of Music