Ritual of the Rhizome, single channel, 2016
12min 12sec, 1920 x 1080 HD
The tree serves as a plethora of metaphors that underpin philosophical thought and knowledge, a symbol of logical progression that branches out but always retains a logical start and end. The ritual traces this idea throughout many philosophical texts while presenting the foundational trunk of a tree, weighted in the center of each shot. The sermon of structure is lost in a repetitious ritual, which deconstructs linear logic and the representational image for the rhizomatic. Work was captured during my Signal Culture residency in 2016 with a one of a kind color wobbulator.
The script was created by searching the keywords:
tree, root, trunk, and branch from the following texts
Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy
Reiner Schürmann
A Thousand Plateaus
Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze
Beyond the limits of thought
Graham Priest
Kant's Theory of Knowledge: An Analytical Introduction
Georges Dicker
The Laws of Thought
George Boole
The Archaeology of Knowledge
Michel Foucault
The structure of appearance
Nelson Goodman
Man against Mass Society
Gabriel Marcel
Introduction to Metaphysics
Martin Heidegger
Logic as a Human Instrument
Francis H. Parker, Henry B. Veatch
Question of Being
Martin Heidegger
Poetry Language Thought
Martin Heidegger
Heidegger's Technologies: Postphenomenological Perspectives
Don Ihde
Color Wobbulator created by Jason Bernagozzi