Tuesday, June 3, 2014

The Erotic Life of Emptiness | Tricycle

The Erotic Life of Emptiness | Tricycle



[A man wore a harness around his body to which was attached all gifts he had received.]



When I saw him a year later, he had ended the experiment with objects and taken off the harness. His performance left me with an image of someone exploring the theater of ownership, gifts, and generosity—how we love to receive things and how they begin to own us, and also how we can be free of them and in some way step into emptiness by passing them on. It was an example of the way art can be more instructive than a sermon.