TYPE: Schematism

PURPOSE: This Audio-visual Meditation Loop puts intention at cause over rage.

CONTEXT:

Kirk is angry—very angry. So angry that he wants to kill Spock, his best friend. The attempt to do so leads to his death. Except that Kirk did not die, and he was never actually angry. Here, Shatner plays Kirk playing crazy. This is great. Enacting any emotion intentionally kills its reality. Why? Because choice is free, so even though you are choosing what is already happening, this brings attention to the fact that choice is there, that it is an available option.

METHOD: There are two parts:

1. Forced creation with audience.
2. Forced creation (loop).
3. Real dissolution (loop).

Context and narrative

With Kirk, fake your rage in the face of your auditor who is pretending to accuse and defame you. You are not one but two levels of critical distance away—doing an imitation of an imitator imitating himself. Exploit the presence of an audience to make it seem real.

Forced creation

With Kirk, fake your rage. You are not one but two levels of critical distance away—doing an imitation of an imitator imitating himself.

TIMESTAMP: 14:53

Real dissolution

With Kirk, be actually depleted of your (fake) rage. Spock is the external force of choice applying to the fact of passing.

TIMESTAMP: 23:53