EXPLANATORY NOTES


What if life originates from outer-space, like in the panspermia-theory. More or less suggesting like the physicist Paul Davies does, that 'extremophiles' or superbugs 'transform a lifeless chemical soup into a primitive organism'. (1)

Imagine that this was brought by a harsh metal breeze from afar. Like in ancient Greece, the cold wind blowing from the north, introducing Spring, as told in the Orphic Hymn 80:

"The winter breeze moving the air of the cosmos,
Freezing-cold Boreas, carrying the snow, coming from Thrace,
Unfasten the clouds everywhere that carry the rainy wind,
Encourage the wet weather and the stormy rain;
Bring us always a clear sky, carrying fresh air
and sun-beams to shine upon the earth".

A storm that brings besides its destructive powers, also the benign gift of catalystic elements that can serve as an impetus for higher-order development like occurring in multicellular organisms, as Valentin F. Turchin puts forward in his evolutionary-cybernetic theory of Metasystem Transition of how higher levels of organization could develop (2)

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THE WORK

In this work the relationships in the movement between text/sound/image are for each section different: click on the image to watch each section

BOREALIS 1-north [2'24"]


is almost literally a representation of the sentences:
It came from the north, over the horizon.
Suddenly ...

BOREALIS 2-horizon [4'42"]

works like a static line which enables the viewer to read the text
with support of the slowly changing music.

BOREALIS 3-fury [6'21"]

contains the storm in its full length and sound, where the music
submerges into violence and the images show the formation of different
entities out of uniform particles.

BOREALIS 4-cadences & intertwinings [4'10"]

this shows the different elements with each of their own rhythm (cadence),
working together (intertwining).

BOREALIS 5-life [1'36"]

The result of collaboration between the separate entities. reaching the final
stage into the Metasystem Transition, where the sound of noise (auditory
speaking the most widest choice of possibillities), accompagnies the return
to almost the similar form as when started, but on a higher organisational
level, ready to repeat the same process again in order to develop or collapse...

Arie van Schutterhoef-2007

arsche[at]xs4all.nl


REFERENCES:
(1) Paul Davies 'The fifth Miracle' -Superbugs-; Simon & Schuster Books 1999.
On the web a.o: 'Superbugs From Hell' by Paul Davies:
http://leiwenwu.tripod.com/davies.htm
(2) Turchin, V.F. The Phenomenon of Science: a cybernetic approach to
human evolution, Columbia University Press, 1977.
On the web: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/Turchin/dialog.pdf