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13 Text panels / Flags in red and yellow. Text according to the principle of “wu wei: Do nothing (with nothing left undone)”; proportions and graphic form of the panels referring to the Chinese Flag
A proposal for an artist’s public intervention in China: The thing to do would be to present elements / stratagems of daoistic philosophy graphically embedded in panels or flags in public contexts (public places, newspapers, TV, internet …), so as to allow them to be found, read and interpreted. All the proposed flags deal with a central daoistic principle called “wu wei: Do nothing (with nothing left undone)” as mentioned by Laozi.
The concept of “wu wei” seems to be as far away as possible from modern Chinese life concepts of eager activism and thus may be representing a (forgotten or repressed) pole of inner clarity and effortlessness.
The text elements are taken from Francois Jullien’s “A Treatise on Efficacy – Between Western and Chinese Thinking “, University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu 2004.
( click flags to XL & read)
( click flags to XL & read )
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- Kommenden Mittwoch liest Harald Gsaller im Rahmen des von Christine Huber kuratierten und moderierten Dicht-Fest – Literarisches Quartier Alte Schmiede , 16. 4. , 19 H
- Am Freitag geht die Reihe bei dem sympathischen kleinen Festival ”bewegte Sprach – Klangbilder” über die Bühne - Literaturhaus 1070, 18. 4. , 19:30 H
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