mathematik und kunst

papier mache animal heads

lucky dragons

lucky dragons

Carsten Holler
Grönalund Tivoli Star and Roller Coaster, 2005
C-print, 58.7 x 46.3 in


“The mass hysteria of cost avoidance and benefit maximization”, “suppresses other concepts to the point of extinction - like unproductivity, unreasonable behaviors (for instance passionate devotion), exaggeration, tranquility and intrepidity”

Carsten Holler talks about his slides
Daniel Birnbaum, ArtForum, March 1999

Phantasmagoria

phantasmagoria ghostly projections

(an early form of magic lantern amusement)

“Kircheriana Domus naturae artisq theatrum.”
Engraved frontispiece for Giorgio de Sepibus, Romani Collegii Societatus Jesu
Musaeum Celeberrimum (Amsterdam, 1678)

Athanasius Kircher

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Harry Smith

Mind is only a faculty or organ (indriya) like the eye or the ear. It can be controlled and developed like any other faculty, and the Buddha speaks quite often of the value of controlling and disciplining the six faculties. The difference between the eye and the mind as faculties is that the former senses the world of colours and visible forms, while the latter senses the world of ideas and thoughts and mental objects. We experience different fields of the world with different senses.


Rahula, Walhola What the Buddha Taught, New York: Grove Press, 1974