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'Devolution #5'- The Being

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--> “Devolution#5”- the being is a LIVE ART performance, which attempts to transcend cultures in search for a common understanding about ‘being’ a HUMAN. Reflecting on one of Jean Paul Sartre’s comment, “We are what we are not and we are not what we are”, my concerns about ‘presence’ and ‘being’ within a cultural context became significant to my performance.   The contradictory nature of human existence that is in constant tension between its universal transcendent nature and its added social and cultural values makes this world into a paradoxical theatre. Life itself has become expressive in its nature of living with hi-tech virtual and simulated gadgets and environments, hence sometimes fusing Art with Life and vice versa. Each part of our life is formulated as an act for that day, which becomes our memory; a past that is often stored in ‘files’ and ‘folders’. The importance of this act of contemplation remains for me an ethical

Devolution#4, STOP! THINK!

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--> “Devolution#5”- the being   is a  LIVE ART  performance, which attempts to transcend cultures in search for a common understanding about ‘being’ a HUMAN.   Reflecting on one of Jean Paul Sartre’s comment, “We are what we are not and we are not what we are”, my concerns about ‘presence’ and ‘being’ within a cultural context became significant to my performance.   The contradictory nature of human existence that is in constant tension between its universal transcendent nature and its added social and cultural values makes this world into a paradoxical theatre. Life itself has become expressive in its nature of living with hi-tech virtual and simulated gadgets and environments, hence sometimes fusing Art with Life and vice versa. Each part of our life is formulated as an act for that day, which becomes our memory; a past that is often stored in ‘files’ and ‘folders’. The importance of this act of contemplation remains for me an ethical and