a room of One's Own & Other spaces

 Hyungkoo Lee ~ Korean artist from the Venice Biennale, 2007


There are spaces that invite the Other 

"Coleridge certainly did not mean, when he said that a great mind is androgynous, that it is a mind that has any special sympathy with women; a mind that takes up their cause or devotes itself to their interpretation. Perhaps the androgynous mind is less apt to make these distinctions than the single-sexed mind. He meant, perhaps, that the androgynous mind is resonant and porous; that it transmits emotion without impediment; that it is naturally creative, incandescent and undivided."

woolf: http://listentogenius.com/recordings/RoomofOnesOwn.mp3
And do you see, I said, men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over the wall? Some of them are talking, others silent.

You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners.

Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave?

True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

And of the objects which are being carried in like manner they would only see the shadows?

Yes, he said.

And if they were able to converse with one another, would they not suppose that they were naming what was actually before them?

Very true.

And suppose further that the prison had an echo which came from the other side, would they not be sure to fancy when one of the passers-by spoke that the voice which they heard came from the passing shadow?

No question, he replied.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

http://listentogenius.com/recordings2/TheRepublic.mp3 

"... all perception and cognition is not purely objective, it is also subjectively conditioned. The world exists not merely in itself, but also as it appears to me. The excessive development of the introverted standpoint in consciousness, for instance, does not lead to a better or sounder application ... The really fundamental subject, the Self, is far more comprehensive than the ego, because the former also embraces the unconscious, while the latter is essentially the focal point of consciousness. The individual Self is a portion, or excerpt, or representative, of something universally present in all living creatures."
Types: http://listentogenius.com/recordings/General-Description-Types.mp3