loadbang Presents: Worlding
“The inexplicable and unfathomable character of the world’s worlding lies in this, that causes and grounds remain unsuitable for the world’s worlding. As soon as human cognition here calls for an explanation, it fails to transcend the world’s nature, and falls short of it.” (Martin Heidegger, “The Thing”)
Worlding cannot be pinned down; it is a process of becoming, unfinished, virtual, by which humans negotiate a sense of familiarity in their environment. There is no perfect worlding; there is always more to be done, more to be had. It is an open question: how do we make ourselves in and of our worlds?
Worlding brings together compositional sensibilities from around the globe all in the process of worlding. These landscapes—both imaginary and intimately real—reflect the way individuals understand the world in which they live: the ecology, the nation, the community, but also the small details of pattern, architecture, comfort, and self-projection that make them personal and near at hand. The works here project precisely the openness to which Heidegger refers in the negative: worlding does not and can never merely explain or transcend the world. Instead it unfurls continuously inside it.
