ROBOTIC and SYNTHETIC PERFORMANCE: Steps Toward a Culture of Liberation a Manifesto of the OmniCircus
XVI. THE POETRY of the SENSES
Can there be definite ideas contained in abstract shapes, sounds, etc., and in their relationships? If so, a populace with the help of its architects, artists, and designers could control them in a creative way. Constructivist artists are creating an international industrial aesthetic language of shape, sound, color, form and movement. The abstract formal elements of design become a language when the socially defined, concrete connotations that viewer brings to the artwork are discovered and applied systematically and consciously by the artist. These associations are no longer the simplistic A=A syllogism of realist art; they are combinations, indeed constellations, of associations that are definite and independent of the personalities of the viewer or creator. Meaning, in abstract art, is not personal, nor is it universal or super historic. It is an historical and class-defined phenomenonas is consciousness itself. Connotations that appear as immutable to a particular class in a particular epoch will change as the class and epoch change.
What is the alphabet of the abstract language today?