Temporary sway to the death drive
The following text describes the land artwork Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson. Does the highlighted section mean:
she says that Spiral Jetty ‘performs a symbolic ritual which allows a temporary movement toward the death drive’, oscillating between the ecstatic moments of the site, where perception can not be detached from the site (which he describes these moments like "perception was heaving, the stomach turning...I had the red heaves as the sun vomited its corpuscular radiation") and the images exhibited in the gallery which characterize the more stable moments than the moments which are experienced at the site?
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My purpose here is rather to note how their experiments with form destabilise space in such a way that it empties itself, turning the inside out or outside in, creating a duality that is impossible to inhabit in three-dimensional space but that echoes the entropic motion of the death drive, which, in seeking disintegration, inevitably spews out new forms. Iversen echoes this when she says that Spiral Jetty ‘enacts a symbolic ritual allowing temporary sway to the death drive’, oscillating between the ecstatic moments of the site where perception is dedifferentiated – ‘perception was heaving, the stomach turning...I had the red heaves as the sun vomited its corpuscular radiation’ – with the rubble of the nonsite exhibited in the gallery characterising the more stable moments of this ebb and flow. (The nonsite refers to the photographs and gridded formations of rocks Smithson exhibited in the gallery.)
Top answer
Different "sway". It means something like control. "Cannot" is one word.
- Different "sway".
- It means something like control.
- "Cannot" is one word.
- Good luck with this.
- Good writers are usually not very good talkers, and if the same is true for artists, Iversen must be wonderful.
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Different "sway". It means something like control. "Cannot" is one word.
Good luck with this. Good writers are usually not very good talkers, and if the same is true for artists, Iversen must be wonderful. She says that something oscillates between one thing, as far as I can tell, and I am left standing there empty-handed. I'm probably not the best person for what you want here because I
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