Tower of London, 2013
William Kentridge, in Figuring Faith, applies Plato's term metaxu to art in a way that has considerable synergy with the Windows on the world series:
"Plato's term metaxu describes that which separates and connects, an ironic or oxymoronic, contradictory position. It makes me think of the wall between two prisoners that separates them, but that also makes communication possible through knocking. Or a window that separates you from the view outside, but also frames the view and makes you aware of what you are looking at. Metaxu also refers to an "in-between state", between being separated and connected, between a quotidian, every day reality and the world of mystery and transcendence beyond ... the very activity of making the work involves the artist in a journey of going from what is known to what is glimpsed at, half understood and tentatively approached with the work."
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Leonard Cohen and U2 - Tower Of Song.
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