Marija Bozinovska Jones - Beginningless Mind (Rivers, Rhythms, Rituals)

In its original iteration, Beginningless Mind gestured towards more embodied forms of intelligence in image, spoken word and the stunning electronic score from 33EMYBW and Gediminas Žygus. For Rivers, Rhythms, Rituals, Jones worked in collaboration with Berlin movement artist Franka Marlene Foth to translate the results one step further, into a “kinesthetic vernacular,” which the artists describe as “a gesture where the verbal collapses meaning onto movement.” In a process of translation that moves past the machine-level perspective of intelligence as a cognitive process that disregards embodied knowledge, Jones situates Beginningless Mind as issuing forth and flowing through the body, a corporeal liberation from algorithmic reasoning. “To transcend the limitations of language, Beginningless Mind observes the mind as embodied intelligence with porous boundaries,” describes Jones. “A view of the body as a collective assemblage of social, material and unknowable multitudes, queers the nature-culture divide. Starting where we are, we can begin to refine our consciousness towards universal kinship. Viewed as an open holistic system, such intelligence releases innate wisdom through movement, where the unfolding of awareness exceeds the threshold of the skin.”

By transcending the limitations of language and redefining intelligence and knowledge as inherently bodily phenomena, Jones is able to trace consciousness as an expansive, flowing network of interdependent exchange, between mind and body, organism and environment. “In union with the environment it is composed of and situated in, the embodied mind as intrinsic multiplicity feeds back information through sensing multitude sources,” explains Jones. “A view of a collective sympoietic assemblage as tangible and imperceptible interrelations, offers liberation from categorisations. Interdependent with other ecosystems, collective embodiments engage in a perpetual life-maintaining ritual of energy flows. The title, Rivers, Rhythms, Rituals, refers to the dharmic notion of the mind as universal consciousness which has no beginning nor end and manifests as a constant energy transformation. Approaching our need for connection through the commons of the internet and our primordial interrelationship with the more-than-human, could prompt us to nurture our contact zones. Starting where we are, we can begin to refine our consciousness towards universal kinship.”

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