Bonjours.
It is nice to read from you again !!. Really nice indeed 
I realise with great joy that the location in which we are in- virtual - lets say so has gradually and greatly modelled our representaions of time and space. I know it might be simple to say so as the cognisance of ‘New place’ is not seemingly new to you both.
I have read intensely your dialogues( recent) and I could resume that there is a real desire to sustain our own identity first then our cultural and social identities secondly. It is just so human amazingly but so crucial still. What should Imagining arts after mean to us now then? Which type of humans are we growing into? How will humanity look like in 100 years. Still so many questions about The Humans we re. Questiosn which ahve this in come .Time
However ,the project we re to mount then make true is thus on A ‘New place ‘. I m happy to know this.You were thus right Bindu time made me digest what I had eatten with you too - the thought of a potential project is ripened - and I now realise that it is inbetween time that passes that things really happen. Changing and changes are unpredicatble andyet neccesary.The confsuion is great within this issues but it manifest a problem; the one of how the experiences we make influence on us experiencing further experiences .
To me it is very difficult to understand phenomenologically what a ‘New place is ‘. The defintion of it brought by Bindu in one of her post was clear academically but I still find difficulties having a place in this New place.It s just that I think I m part of a generation of young cameroonians, young humans stricto sensu whose vision of the world has been altered due to the passage , the rapid passage beteween two worlds.The old one caracterised by the lives of my parent still culturally sound and a new world caracterised by novel norms and values ellicited as a result of globalisation.I m sytematically not just my singular product as intrinsically my will power could alter this experience but as well a product of time and time differences. I m the product of others too.
It is thus difficult for me to see a ‘New place’ as a place where I can behave like you both ? En passant, What is a New place to me.? Where is my home?.In reality I don t know. I have been bathed by so many things in my life so many chagges . Changes which change so fast .No change is permannet so I keep changining all the time thus.A New place would thus be another concept , just another concept ,another food for thought , a part of the universe where I rebegin what was already done by someone else or now by me. It is so nice to have to think that one can restart from the begining .It ‘s really refreshing this idea of ‘tabula rasa’. Vacuum . New in its content and potential . New Where?
‘Here’ or ‘there’?
I want simple things .To be able to create Reality by my ownself artistically.What is real is true, it’s beyond me.I have nothing to do with it objectively speaking.It imposes itself.
A New place is not a ‘New place’.To me A new place would be in relation to our project as wella way of showing how time makes things to change and how we have changed . Also why it is important for us to change mentalities as time changes as well. Do we belong to our self? Uour Identity does it make sense now again?
It is like a dream .Moving through time.Delicate and strange , soft and hard .A vortex of what we know and don t know.
I think it is a matter of time and space ‘New Place’ , the manner with which we feel we belong to this world .The extent to which we feel we carry our existence well.The extent with which we get hold of our lives and manage them in ways thet are interestingly congruent with what Is. There is really nothing new .Is there?
A ‘New place’ would enable me artistically to make see things with a collective conscious.With no judgment.Each one who should see my art work should conclude not on what I subjectively showed but on what I showed really.Indeed, There is nothing new in what I create.
A new place like this has enabled me to understand my reference points .To refine my identity as beign.Who are my? where are my moving into?How?
A new place has enabled me to be convinced that life again more than ever is a process of interaction.As suprisingly as it might seem in the thought process we elaborate , our cognitions constantly are renewed and reshuffled when in interaction with the new that is what is not known as ideas. I imagine arts after. This place differently and I think this will and is enabling me to be better already. Thank you!!
Time seems again to be one of my favorite themes. And as I write it comes to me what you restated ; what Do ‘I’ want? What do I really want? what Do I ‘really’ ,’ really’ want both’ here’ and ‘there’? I was thinking of removing the quotation marks in these words. As I was saying These phrases you wrote resonates within me very strongly.
What do i want?
Could we dream of a moment in our existence where by we would just seem to tend to our ideasl but effectively incarnate tehm and be them?. We do arts for a lot of reasons.I do arts for a lot of reasosn.One of the most important of them is that I love communicating.I would like to be able to say things as thy re.Things are essentially simple.By essence nature is simple says Hideki yukawa.Cheikh Hamidou Kane and léopold Sendar Senghor link us to universality. I think that is who I savvy them.A common denominator for so many differences.
I dream of unity , peace , love and creativity.
The time in between our differet existences should not make us forget that inbtween time , things change and are even changing.Perhaps there will be a time where arts will be something else.what? a common and harmonious way of living?
The Time inbetween and inbetween time
Hi Didier,
I had missed reading this text and really liked what you wrote. I often fall short of words and when i read the posts of other people i realise how many things i wanted to write and to say, yet could not. For you a new place is a place, time, space that is in a constant state of flux, for me a new place is a place of absence, probably i can only describe it as a desire for a new place, i wish to go to a new place since i cannot bear being in the same old place, but when in this new place there is a nostalgia for the old and hence this process continues. hence one moves from one experience to another and lives in a constant state of homelessness. Through this project, i had been thinking of searching something COMMON between all of us, but why cant our own perceptions, which maybe very different, be something common between us. Cannot difference be the common denominator between us? Can our work not be about our 3 different perceptions of a New Place?
Bindu