sadoo
nogueira, a great early explorer in apophatic aestheticism who rode a lonely
skiff of absinthe to the vorticial cliffs of dream, writes –
in the classic
age art developed consciousness on the level of the three dimensional sensation
– that is art applied itself to a perfect and clear visioning of reality
considered as solid. postchristian art has worked constantly towards the
creating of a two dimensional art. we must create a one dimensional art
now
though, in the presence of the internet, global capitalism, ecological
collapse, and the omnipresent toxic mirror of humanity splintered in the plasmatic soul of
god, only zero dimensional art is possible
what
is zero dimensional art?
it
attempts to go nowhere and goes nowhere
in dark
emptiness it manifests light and plenitude, light and plenitude that then manifest
their manifestor
our
nothingness seems so expressed not that it creates an object or an audience,
reaches for audience or object, attempts to effect any sensations in ourselves
or others, but, if anything, precisely not this: that it remains in the
intimacy of objectlessness, it remains without audience, its inevitable
sensations contained in that boundaryless cell that does not effect, that
cannot
sensations
have not disappeared in zero dimensional art but tumble over themselves as
numbers falling down a hole
all
directions are uncertain. i retreat but this retreat is an advance, i fail but
this failure is a success, i deinvest but this deinvestment’s an investment, i
go mad but this madness is a sanity. in none of these movements is anything
lost (and in this amassing rests a vast heart of forgetting): the retreat though an advance is still a retreat, the failure though a
success is still a failure, the deinvestment though an investment is still a
deinvestment, the madness though sane is still madness. and these totalities of
cancellations are the zero that is written
but
no. not even written. seen, but barely seen. glimpsed, but only in thick fogs.
intuited, but as a truth in an unspoken formula in a dream
it
pitches its tent of identity on the rumoured decentred desert of namelessness. the news,
opinions, facts, careers, schools and workshops and degrees, parties and
watering holes and openings and jostlings that comprise 0+n dimensional art and
so are subsidiaries of transnational conglomerations perhaps worthy of videos taken on phones
of plays of ancients
ghoul'd herbert presaged in a particular way zero dimensional art
through its withdrawal from the social apparatuses of art, desiring that
communication of consciousness to consciousness, that language that hasn’t been
toxicied through the scrimmages for power and money, through conventional and clichéd
grammars and concepts, propriety and a barbaric elite
in zero as the
mystics have long known and articulated in their necessarily elliptical and
abstruse ways, god grows. and what is god but possibility (as the woman in
white cotton intuited)? : polyforms of the desert, an immense choreograph of emptiness. so zero dimensional art aims – as the protestant reformation aimed to
eliminate the unnecessary manifold, bureaucratic and frequently pompous layers
between soul and god and long before it hinduism knew that evil was nothing but inserting viability between brahman and atman – to minimally make
irrelevant and more fully dissipate solid facticity from art
only zero dimensional
art lives what the twentieth century theorized: it erases the artist by
denaming, decentering, disappearing, decreating, through untraceable identities
that no more experience art as career as shitting. zero dimensional art is
breathing and art is the conscious expression of this breathing. zero
dimensional art returns to the roots of religion, animism, wildness, wonder by
de-arting art in the nothing that is
our
frequent dealing in ennui, indifference, renouncement before the sanest and
simplest things is entirely intermingled and subsumed in detranscendences that
are no more multiplied than divided, added, subtracted, subject to every possible
mathematical operation whether irrational or imaginary, resulting in results that have as much to do with sense as bananas with dental benefits
consciousness
is a compost of zero that decomposes, an analysis that’s heterogeneously catalytic
of
course we concern ourselves with politics, religions, morals, society etc to the extent
they concern themselves with us. news is the rain in my nonexistent soul
zero dimensional art is not about art or creating or being an
artist. it is at least as much as and maybe more about not being these things –
of traveling through time to achieve a new naïveté. any zero dimensional artist
(but even this name defies the spirit of our spirit – rather: zero
dimensionalist) will dissociate itself from all forms and channels associate
with the edifice of art, will sustain itself through activities wholly
disconnected with art, will – should it somehow be discovered – immediately and
naturally relocate itself to new places of exile and unknown. only in this way
does a disparate anonymous tribe of zero creators compost effectively the crude
hypocrisies, dominations, wretchednesses, sufferings of the villainous world:
by taking these attributes into itself, into the vast plethora of possibility,
and maintaining them there
and to our ancestors – chuang tzoo, nogueira blake, billy pessoa, sadoo
– we give not our thanks for there is nothing to give – we do not even give our
nothing – but possibly a hyphen and a colon, for these are their inheritance to us and what we have effectively become – glyphs of punctuation, indicators of
continuation and what follows, pixels of voided colour, a collapsed hyperventilated
hypersphere whose once thin grey hint of a shimmer of an outline has been
erased by a kind of excess of accounting of functions and relations