Publication year 2026
Catalogue no. C.2034
Duration 9 minutes
Metaxy
(2024)
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(2024)
Publication year 2026
Catalogue no. C.2034
Duration 9 minutes
Diotima was a priestess and philosopher of ancient Greece, mentioned briefly in Plato’s Symposium. Diotima had two main philosophies: one about Eros (love), both as a personification (the god) and as a concept; the other about Metaxy, or the “in-between”. Diotima would question classical binary oppositions, e.g. light/dark, good/bad etc., but rather than distinguishing between the two, was interested in how the opposites were connected, arguing that every opposite, contains some of its opposition, and that the most interesting things happen in the spaces in-between.
The idea of Metaxy later inspired modern philosophers and has been described by Michael P. Federici and Eric Voegelin as:
The permanent in-between structure of existence.Sometimes referred to as the “between” or “in-between”, meaning that humans live within a structure of realitythat is between the poles of existence.
Thus, Metaxy became the inspiration for this piece, where fluctuations between static and flowing, scream and muffled, constricted and open, are examined as they blend into one another.