Here are some studio shots of what I'm doing now. I have begun the second leg of preparing for my show in October. In June I laid out a plan for peaking myself for October 13ish. Things have been going along perfectly. I found that Josh Waitzkin, in "The Art of Learning" has a similar method of bringing himself up to a high level of presence, performance, creativity, and productivity to that which I have been using in my studio. I was apply principles of peaking and performance that I learned in wrestling. Waitzkin uses methods learned in world-level chess competition and applies them to martial arts. He also successfully teaches others to apply those principles to any discipline. (Apparently he is good friends with Tom Otterness as well.) Reading his book has helped me to solidify my methods and made me feel less crazy for talking about a correlation between art and wrestling practice. * Josh Waitzkin is the chess champion from the movie "Searching for Bobby Fisher." He's the "kid" (man) the movie was based on, not the actor.Right now I'm working of drawings and doing small things here and there for the installation. This is one last push to get a few more drawings finished so I have a better selection to choose from for the show. This will probably be a 2-3 week push.
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While I understand nothing of wrestling, I do not think it is crazy at all to talk about it in correlation to art. It makes me think of Yves Klein and his love for judo. I am not a Klein scholar and hesitate to give my own description, so please allow me to post a quote here instead:
“For Yves Klein, ritual was not only deeply tied to his conception of art, but it offered a means of breaking away from artistic conventions and of finding ways of renewing himself. His view of ritual as an instrument not of adherence to an established order, but of subversion to it, is one I would liken to those of the Tantric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism, whose elaborate observances seek to effect a complete transformation of reality through a disciplined channeling of human energies in the direction of ecstasy. It is this emphasis on the transformational dimension of ritual activity, at its root profoundly subversive, that Yves Klein cultivated and that would come in time to permeate every aspect of his life and work. ... Klein's interest in ritualism took on a variety of forms, though none was closer to his heart than his commitment to judo. So strong was this commitment and the practice that sustained it, that judo in turn informed his artistic outlook.” Oliver Berggruen in, 'The Dissolution of the Ritual into the Void.'
Looking very much forward to your show this October! Good luck with all!
-eve
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