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Gaming into Mindfulness
Interview with Joas Nebe by Rebecca Schoensee
(excerpt)
“It’s a never-ending game of disintegration. I
challenge the viewer by not living up to his
or her expectations. I am denying the
satisfaction of solving the riddle, hidden
within the depth of my artwork.” By turning
his filmic cabinet of curiosity into an
intriguing jigsaw puzzle of hybrid geometric
patterns, Joas Nebe teases the viewer into
accessing his game. He believes: “Riddle games
of this kind spark creativity and pass on the
role of the artist to the viewer.”
Taking the Reason Prisoner
To Nebe, “fantasy and creative intelligence
are important survival skills today.” So is
chess, an analogy he keeps referring to:
“Chess exemplifies my game with the viewer. In
a world of shortening attention spans, it’s an
ideal concentration-practice. One always has
to think a few steps in advance.” By screening
the insanity of our daily chase towards
evolutionary bankruptcy, Nebe in a clever move
takes the reason prisoner, only to appoint
reason to be the king of his game of chess. He
calls for a close review of the encyclopedia
of our philosophical and cultural foundations.
In his opinion reason has the potential to
direct a path away from the horror vacui he is
depicting: “The model of enlightenment has
increasingly been discredited, wrongfully I
believe. Today survival and coexistence are
only possible if governed by the faculty of
reason. Labeling and connoting intellectual
categories help to bring new relations into
sight and to gain unexpected terms of
knowledge.”
The interview essay "Gaming Into Mindfulness"
has been published in Humanize Magazine, issue
11, p. 20-31.
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