Infrathin Conditions by Doug Haire
Here are 5 soundtracks that isolate the gap in an infrathin condition.
In his 1957 talk, “The Creative Act,” Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) described art as a gap that represents the difference between intention and realization. “What art is in reality,” he later commented, “is this missing link, not the links which exist. It’s not what you see that is art, art is the gap. I like this idea and even if it’s not true I accept it for the truth.”[1] The gap, the in-between, the liminal, the non-retinal, stretch the limits of articulation. When the definitive properties of known words fail, there is always the possibility of invention. Duchamp provided a key to the door that is both open and closed in the form of a neologism, the infrathin. As demonstrated in his posthumously published notes, the infrathin rejects definition— “one can only give examples of it.” [2] Accepting Duchamp’s challenge of definition, I argue that “sensitivity to difference” is central to the infrathin.[3] The role of the artist, as implied in Duchamp’s notes, is to be attentive to difference.
-Caitlin Murray
https://impossibleobjects.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/how-to-isolate-the-infrathin-marcel-duchamp-raymond-roussel-and-the-pun/
Tracklist
| 1. | Infrathin Condition 8 | 5:58 |
| 2. | Infrathin Condition 13 | 8:00 |
| 3. | Infrathin Condition 18 | 6:01 |
| 4. | Infrathin Condition 14 | 17:35 |
| 5. | Infrathin Condition 9 | 4:38 |
