Rather, a total work of art working to become a total work of ART endures a process of continual and incremental change enacted through a constant openness to the event.
A total work of art becomes a total work of ART when two or more objects engage in gift exchange. But one gift transaction alone will not suffice. It requires continual orientation toward giving and receiving, it requires the rejection of top-down coercive force, it requires an unwavering commitment to non-violent violence to keep one’s object-edges soft and permeable. This is not a violence exacted by the totalitarianist’s terrible swift sword, may it never be! Rather, this is a violence first heard and then felt: the gentle sucking sound heard when one experiences their own object-edges loosing their surface tension.
This is what it is for a total work of art to do the good work of becoming a total work of ART.
A total work of art becomes a total work of ART when two or more objects engage in gift exchange. But one gift transaction alone will not suffice. It requires continual orientation toward giving and receiving, it requires the rejection of top-down coercive force, it requires an unwavering commitment to non-violent violence to keep one’s object-edges soft and permeable. This is not a violence exacted by the totalitarianist’s terrible swift sword, may it never be! Rather, this is a violence first heard and then felt: the gentle sucking sound heard when one experiences their own object-edges loosing their surface tension.
This is what it is for a total work of art to do the good work of becoming a total work of ART.