MOTUS CORPORIS / Aika Liikeh
2015
Aika Liikeh (2015) is part of the slideshow for Fundamental Ephemeris / International Mail-Art-Ausstellung New York-Frankfurt.
In the catalog: Meaning of words in the title: “aika” means time in Finnish language, but “aika” is also used for the word great as "onpa aika iso kala", which means "what a big fish". In ancient Karelian language - a region of Finland - the word “liike” is written as "liikeh", which means movement; but these two words together are: what a great movement.
My program is about T'ai chi ch'uan, an internal Chinese martial art. A slow motion slideshow is a good way to show the images in sequence; a method which narrows down a deep meaning of the martial art, practiced with relatively slow movements.
With the demonstration of photographs in sequence we discovered cinema. The twentieth century time is a time of movies. But our era is also to discover our inner life; this is because we feel lost.