disquiet at the certainty of mortality and the fragility of humanity.
2007-01-21 17:28:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Tilda Swinton is a British actress who is taking on a role that will call for a different kind of depth: sleeping.
Appearing at the Serpentine Gallery in London as part of an installation by Cornelia Parker called "The Maybe," she will sleep in a cabinet for eight hours a day from Sept. 4 to 10.
A press release from the gallery says, "Tilda Swinton, enclosed in her own glass cabinet, a living, breathing, silent being, invokes disquiet at the certainty of mortality and the fragility of humanity."
It basically says our mortality (death) is certain and humans are fragile. This has nothing to do with Ms. Swinton sleeping in a glass cabinet for days. It's a "wordy" press release that tries to impress, by sounding profound, but it's quite silly.
2007-01-21 17:33:36 · answer #1 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Properly punctuated, it is: "...enclosed in her own glass cabinet, a living, breathing, silent being, invokes disquiet at the certainty of mortality and the fragility of humanity." It means the woman has put herself on public display, lying, asleep in a glass cabinet, hoping to provoke an honest discussion about our general discomfort in contemplating death.
2007-01-22 01:36:28 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever read "Sleeping Beauty"?
I saw Tilda in the glass case at the Serpentine Gallery London some years ago and it was a strange sight, she did look very vulnerable.
I saw a glass case of latex cabbages made by Fiona Clark at Art School once years earlier and it had the same effect.
I think anything in a glass case becomes interesting just as anything placed in a gallery suddenly becomes art...really it does.
2007-01-22 01:53:18 · answer #3 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be a very poetic metaphor for some one contemplating bringing a child into this world. Or someone enclosing a butterfly in the killing jar.
If it's prose, your sentences are pretty disjointed.
2007-01-22 01:36:57 · answer #4 · answered by ___ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It just means she is going to lie there quite in her box sleeping. When you look at people sleeping you see how delecate and fragile they are and it gives perspective on your own life.
I don't think much of such "art." There are better ways to evoke such images, but Swinton is cute so I guess it's okay.
2007-01-22 01:35:39 · answer #5 · answered by Zarathustra 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didn't you just answer your own question?
2007-01-22 01:32:31 · answer #6 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋