Marcel Duchamp's Bigboīte 1 presented by Chronotechnics Holding S.A. & PIA Bank S.A.

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Marcel Duchamp's "Bigboīte" presented by Chronotechnics Holding S.A. & PIA Bank S.A.

The Bigboīte laid out as a collection of objects both readymade and created

The "Bigboīte " laid out as a collection of objects both readymade and created

Discovering the mind as an atemporal mental construct with no temporal sequence, but many unexpected cross-references.

Our success in life depends on the orderly fashion in which we unpack and repack our mind's baggage. Each time we unpack a memory or skill, it is slightly altered. Thus, as a result of this process, repacking the mental suitcase becomes more and more difficult. The psychoanalyst's office is limited to unpacking the mental suitcase. In order to repack it, the patient must go outside the therapy and repack the therapeutic experience in real life.

Inside and Outside

There is a great difference between the inside and outside mental package. The outside mental package is known exactly by nobody. Thus, there is no normal but rather a commonly shared or generalized perception. The internal mental package is always a construct made up of emotional links, temporal data and senory input. The internal mental package always looks somewhat like this image to everyone outside. This is an important point for the psychoanalyst's self-recognition. We are not there to evaluate the configuration of the package just to improve the unpacking and repacking.

Creativity of the Mind: The Mind's Eye

Nothing is ever banal or ordinary for the human mind. Every experience is an adventure in the consturction of mental images made up of the banal and the mind's creative interpretation. Individuality stems from the latter and community from the former. Artists habitually introduce the community to individuality. Art is always a form of group therapy.

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Mental Encoding and Decoding

The mind is hardwired like a typewriter. If you type long enough you will make some sense of any input. The closer your input is to the hardwired expectation, the easier your interpretation of life is. Some experiences make the mental typewriter hard to use. The therapist reconciles these experiences with the hardwiring for the patient whose experiences are incomprehensible to themselves and others.

The Surprise of Being in Language

While we all accept language as a banality, when we move from culture to culture, there are shocks. The image is indeed in French "une fontaine". In English, we are shocked at the mismatch of the word and the image. The French enjoy a playfulness with language based upon puns which are privatized and shared among friends as a sign of intimacy and trust. This process is based upon the appropriation of language by siblings in the family who set up a second shared language, secret from their parents. This is the first sense of independence from authority and the power of language.

Finding out what you mean to yourself and others

The image is quite mysterious. When the images in your mind look like this to you, you need to share this problem with a therapist. When others say the images look like this to them, you need to explain individuality to them.

The Passive Mind

The mind cannot shut out perception nor block the attempt to make sense of the perceptions, the digitalization of perception. Thus, we are passively forced to store whatever we see and hear. The way we use this data in the future is either art or an affliction. Life is a series of banal images imposed upon the passive mind.

Time fractures reality into Fractals through Perception

Whether you are looking at the dots of pointilism, the shifting colours of Monet's paintings of the same scene or Marcel Duchamp descending a staircase, you are seeing what the mind sees, a fractal reality. Appropriately, as Marcel Duchamp insisted the nude in "Nude descending a Staircase" is himself. It must be so nobody else could see the internal image of fractured time created by his mind but himself. However, sometimes the mind does not unify the fractured image and perception becomes a painful expeerience of flashing colours, lights and movements not unlike the painting.

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