Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal: Oscarine


Timber Timbre: Trouble Comes Knocking

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And so, held accountable for nothing, life fades into nothingness. Automatization eats away at things, at clothes, a furniture, at our wives, and at our fear of war.

If the complex life of many people takes place entirely on the level of the unconscious, then it's as if this life had never been.

And so, in order to return sensation to our limbs, in order to make us feel objects, to make a stone feel stony, man has been given the tool of art. The purpose of art, then, is to lead us to a knowledge of a thing through the organ of sight instead of recognition.

- Viktor Shklovsky, from "Art as Device" in Theory of Prose.

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