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Aesthetic Representation of the Grotesque Body

by UNSIGNIFIED DEATH

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Recorded 30 August 2019

"...John Scotus Eriugena in his text The Contrast of Opposites (Ninth Century) highlighted the importance of the 'deformed' in establishing equilibrium. Rather than excluding the deformed from considerations of beauty, he suggested that it was a crucial part of beauty's overall makeup. He argued "that anything that could be considered deformed in itself as a part of a whole not only becomes beautiful in the totality, because it is well ordered, but is also a cause of beauty in general." "Eriugena established a principle that Umberto Eco has stated is now observed almost uniformly: although ugly creatures and things exist, art has the power to portray them in a beautiful way, and the beauty of this imitation makes ugliness acceptable. In other words, the ugliness that repels us in nature exists, but it becomes acceptable and even pleasurable in the art that expresses and shows beautifully the value of ugliness."

- David Cross
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Released on CDr limited to 15 copies through Void Singularity Recordings available at voidsingularityrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/aesthetic-representation-of-the-grotesque-body

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released December 11, 2019

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UNSIGNIFIED DEATH Bangkok, Thailand

"A wound with blood and pus, or the sickly, acrid smell of sweat, of decay, does not signify death. In the presence of signified death—a flat encephalograph, for instance—I would understand, react, or accept." "These body fluids, this defilement, this shit are what life withstands...on the part of death."

- Julia Kristeva
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