installation presented at Video Pool Media Arts Centre,Winnipeg, Manitoba, Nov. 26-27, 2013. Documenting presentation options, plus excerpts from the Bond Institute public talk.
2013 April 30 - President of Bond Institute, the venerable Nük, announces his retirement due to ill health. Enduring the obligatory retirement ceremony, the 18 [equivalent to 88 human] year old Nük poses for his ever-demanding public.
Yes. To pursue this, in the insight ending time, isn't there freedom to become without conflict? K. was made, had no need to become, yet maintained discipline nonetheless. Honourable - he could have been undone! Even in timeless nothing, there appears significance/ form. Has intention arisen only to show the emptiness of energy? Historical memory is evolving. If the whole movement of life is a sustained meditation driven by the conflict of becoming, then how to act?
‘... to be listened to from any point in the recording, for any length of time, up to (at most) one hour, perhaps from another room, preferably while doing dishes, or quite possibly, dusting.