Jean Kusina

 

Box of Infinity (Impossible to Dissemble)

All of the quotations in this piece are from Emmanuel Levinas’s Totality and Infinity, a work in which infinity arises out of the interaction between the self and the Other.... According to Levinas, the “language of the eyes” is “impossible to dissemble.” On the inner lid of the box are the eyes of the Other that plead, “Do not kill me.” This is the face-to-face encounter that makes all ethics possible. Yet the face of the Other, like infinity, cannot be kept within a box and always exceeds the very idea of it. For this reason, the words are situated upon a roulette wheel in which the silver ball represents freedom and possibility. Jean Kusina

 

Jean Kusina is a writer and network artist whose work has recently been featured in Xtant 3, the Fifth annual meeting of Experimental, Sound, and Visual Poetry (Buenos Aires), and &Now: a Festival of Writing as a Contemporary Conceptual Art at the University of Notre Dame. She also participates in numerous networked art projects and exhibitions.

 

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INFINITY :: 2005 :: Dudley House (Harvard University). Jamey Graham and Melissa Shields

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