Synopsis
It is the imperfection and incompleteness in a great work of art which provides an opportunity for the spectator or listener to adapt its message to his or her situation and life. The art then becomes dynamic, vital and engaging. If a work were complete and perfect, it would be constrained in time and space, would thus be limiting and in the end trivial.
Great principles, which are the peaks to which great works lead us, are never constrained by time and space, and demand our active and personal involvement now. Every discovery leads to another question, every insight another opportunity, and we end up by completing the work ourselves, within our own being.
This talk is the second of the Flying Mountains series and will bring many examples from the East, particularly Japan, to illustrate and develop an understanding of the subtle and elusive manifestation of imperfection and incompleteness in great works of art and architecture, literature and music.
Presenter: Demetrius Condos
Demetrius is a registered architect who graduated from the University of NSW late last century (1984). He studied architectural symbolism under Peter Kollar and Adrian Snodgrass and did his thesis on traditional Japanese Architecture, titled “The Art of the Japanese Teahouse”. He has been practicing architecture with his own company Templum Design Architects doing mostly residential work, and also works with a large commercial firm on some of the really big buildings that shade our streets in Sydney. He has travelled non-extensively throughout Japan and India.
Location:
School of Philosophy, Level One, 142 - 147 Elizabeth
Street, Sydney, 2000
Date:
9.30am Sunday 11 September
2005
Fee:
The presentation is $5.00 and refreshments are
included.
We
will start at 9.30am and after approx 80 minutes,
there will be an interval where a delicious Morning
Tea / Coffee, with freshly cut sandwiches, and home
made cakes and biscuits will be served.
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