Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans
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Title
Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans
Author
Rios , Jorge
Advisors
Grabill , Vin
Program
Imaging and Digital Arts
UMBC Department
Visual and Performing Arts
Document Type
thesis
Sponsors
University of Maryland , Baltimore County (UMBC)
Keywords
beauty ; existentialism ; nirvanna
Date Issued
2010-01-01
Abstract
ABSTRACT The film/installation , Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans , is an inquiry into the philosophical and spiritual implications of being . It is an examination of perception , language , and objects and their relationship to being . All we can know is that we exist , and primarily we exist as if asleep . Only intermittently , do we open our eyes and see the world . These moments of awareness make up the frames of the film . The film has many influences , including phenomenology , which attempts to understand the world through perception of the lived moment . James Joyce's interpretation of beauty and aesthetic arrest , as well as the construction of one of his most inaccessible works , Finnegans Wake , has also played a part . Like that work , the film is circular and without end . Another important inspiration has been the work of the anti-artists and Dadaists , especially Marcel Duchamp . Anti-art leads to the acknowledgement that art is everywhere and is anything that evokes Joyce's aesthetic arrest , a spiritual reaction that links art to divinity and Nirvana . Art is not so much created as it is revealed to the beholder . The installation of the film continues that theme , as the filmmaker periodically enters the gallery while filming and adds new video to the work . The film also demonstrates that to experience aesthetic arrest , one must abandon preconceived notions to see with new eyes , and it encourages others to do the same .
Identifier
10303
Format
application:pdf
Language
en
Collection
UMBC Theses and Disserations .
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Source
Rios_umbc_0434M_10303.pdf
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