Sutra 2008
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- Created on: 31-03-18 09:54
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- SUTRA (2008)
- Stimulus
- "i was stuck in a comfort zone of working with and being around dancers"
- "i felt i needed to break out of the usual things i was doing"
- Hisashi Itoh (his producer) said what are you really interested in"
- He suggested going to the Shaolin Temple to meet the monks
- Cherkoaui said martial arts and yoga
- Cherkoui has always considered himself and outsider
- the sense of apartness has helped propel him on a lifelong quest to explore foreign cultures in order to find what links us all
- Babel displays intoxicating optimism about the potential for superficially diverse cultures to find common ground
- the sense of apartness has helped propel him on a lifelong quest to explore foreign cultures in order to find what links us all
- "i had an image of what the monks' lives would be like"
- "he understood the emotional journey that it must be to want to be a monk"
- "i was stuck in a comfort zone of working with and being around dancers"
- Themes
- Sutra meaning "Thread"
- Sutra means thread or string
- It the thing that holds everything together; rules and directions of faith
- Within sutra the Thread is ultimately your, your the one who interprets the meaning of the piece
- Being the thread that is bringing everything together
- The thread is about gaining knowledge of different cultures and linking us all to common ground
- Sutra means thread or string
- Buddhism + Spirituality
- Buddhism teaches the idea of strength and simplicity
- Although they have limitations they seek enlightenment by a sense of self-exploration
- "why do the preach peacefulness yet fight like madmen?"
- Meditation is to quieten the ind and how kung fu is to quieten the body
- It is the practice and spiritual development leading to the insight of true nature of reality
- It reality that you will have to change yourself in order to develop the qualities of awareness, kindness and wisdom
- Buddhism teaches the idea of strength and simplicity
- Animals
- Cherkaoui's connection with the monk continued with the idea of vegetarianism
- The interconnectedness with animals and the way they admire various animals for the way they move
- We resist the greater part of our humanity if we ignore the animal, and linking then the animal with higher consciousness
- Buddhists see all animals as sentient beings
- Because animals share the same aggregates i means that they are not separate to us
- Interconnectedness and body and soul
- Bodies are how we communicate allowing it to become a direct evocation of though and feelings
- Cultural and Social exchange
- Sutra became a journey of cultural and social exchange
- Through translations, negotiations and explanations they created an artistic universe
- He has always felt like and outsider but used the exchange to find a common ground in culture
- It was a way of not only experiencing the monks journey of life but also his own
- Sutra became a journey of cultural and social exchange
- Old and New China
- Old china is based within the pre-industrial era
- With religion based on family units instead of individual choice as well as agricultural jobs
- Nobody looked at the future, they didn't like change
- After 60s, the country became communist led
- It became industrial with tall skyscrapers and factories, people travelled in cars instead of bikes
- Boundaries that were set have been broken and creating the now future, time has developed
- Old china is based within the pre-industrial era
- Sutra meaning "Thread"
- Stimulus
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