Re: <documenta X><blast> home
Bracha Lichtenberg - Ettinger (bracha@easynet.fr)
Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:14:10 +0200
if nomades had no home, how would they know hospitality?
It is the notion itself of home to be rethought. I am thinking of a
co-in/habit(u)ation which is, to begin with, aesthetic, but not only, and
is phrased by affect. Co-in/habit(u)ation's aesthetics border the ethical.
Here, home is an effect and not the source.
Erotic aerials weave together partial subjects and objects that
unknowingly, and unknown to each other are in the process of
co-in/habit(u)ating. In this, some kind of home effect, experience and
sense emerge. Several hythms are conducting toward an unforeseen home
while creating it, bypassing the off/on beat. This rhythm is reaches never
a total "on" or total "off", for it treasures several rythms together and
is attuned by them. Co-in/habit(u)ation is primarily affective, not visual,
and it destabilizes visuality by transgression of affect that cause
infiltrations of invisible trauma into appearance. In the matrixial
borderspace, a center-less heimliche affect silently ascents behind the
'unheimliche' (Freud) aesthetic experience, anguishing and soothing,
tearing and stitching the wounds of a nomadic place, opening in them a
rhythm of interval for an exile, suspended like a rotating sea-wave between
its fading and next birth.
Bracha