Exploring nature, function and necessity of art

Navjyoti Singh
IIIT Center for Exact Humanities HSS431 Lecture 10 11 6-16/09/2011
navjyoti@iiit.ac.in

Lecture 10

Origin of Re-Creation
Natya Sastra of Bharata 1st Chapter on the Re-Creation of the Origin of Re-Creation Concepts of Kriti and Anukriti Imagining an Era of Kriti and its End Universality of Re-Creation (Imagination of Panca-Veda) (Concepts of Sarva-Sadharana and Sarva-Varnika) Visual and Sonic stuff of Re-Creation Concept of Itihasa Performability of Re-Creation Functional Neutrality of Re-Creation

Conditions such that every Human could participate in Re-Creation

Re-Creation primarily deals with Visual and Sonic Stuff

WHY??
Independence of Re-Creation from Human Stratification

HOW??

Neutrality of Re-Creation is Reflective WHY??

Utopian Era of Creativity & Its End Kriti Yuga No Seeking of Sukha or Shunning of Duhkha
At the end of such era Seeking and Shunning proliferated and thus Krida (Playfullness) was born.

Need for the Theory of Playfulness & Re-Creation

Re-Creation versus Creation

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Re-Creation makes possible Itihasa Removal of present Itihasa is Re-Creation and is fundamentally different from evidence-centric History
Objects of past, removed from present, can be Re-Created Trans-Temporality of Re-Creational Reality

Because of the Functional Neutrality of Re-Creation, Itihasa is Perpetually an Open Enterprise

Itihasa is fundamentally open to Imagination

Re-Creation requires Performance

Inability of Gods, Demons etc. to perform Re-Creation

Motor Organs are necessary to perform Re-Creation

Embodied Being can only Perform Re-Creation though Re-Creation may involve Body-less Entities like Gods and Demons, friends and enemies, heros and villains

Re-Creation requires Skill

All-recreations require Agencies in some form or other

There is no automatic human agency-less Re-Creation

Agencies require repeated practice and habits to put up refined and engrossing Re-Creation

Event-Centric Re-Creations are a skilled Job where skills are rejoiced (slippage or lack of skill is obstructive)

Re-Creation requires Immersion Stage

Various different forms of Re-Creations Require special arrangements of material reality such that Seamless performance becomes possible

These arrangements become invisible in Re-Creation

All higher forms of Event-Centric Re-Creations require Stage even if it is temporarily installed

Re-Creation is reflective of Canonical Truths

In elaborate Re-Creation like films judgments could get revised

Concerns related to ethics and justice are played up in Re-Creation and reflectivity regarding them is exercised

Even functional neutrality is used to Re-Create Novelty Away from habitual cannons

Re-Creative Drama that displays Truths about Re-Creation

[Read and analyze First Chapter of Natya Sastra] [What truths does the Drama of Drama brings home]