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1 — Intro to Liminal

When I googled “liminal space” one of the things that came up was this.

The word liminal comes from the Latin word ‘limen’, meaning threshold — any point or place of entering or beginning. A liminal space is the time between the ‘what was’ and the ‘next.’ It is a place of transition, a season of waiting, and not knowing. (source)(https://inaliminalspace.org/about-us/what-is-a-liminal-space/)

It seems to me that in today’s world there is not much appriation for or valuing of liminal spacs and the lack of certinity that exists within them. Rather there is value in ariving, in knowing, in being sure of something. This is odd to me because it is only by passing through the liminal (the not knowing) that we arrive at knowledge.

2 — Music & the Liminal

I find that one of the things that helps me access liminal spaces is music with no (or perhaps very few) words.

This email newsletter is an attempt to curate a collection of this sort of music… and maybe other things that ease one’s passage into liminal spaces.

3 — Lawrence English

For this first edition of the Liminal Email Newsletter (LEN) I’m going to point your all in the direction of Lawrence English(https://www.lawrenceenglish.com). Here is a bit from the bio on his website.

Lawrence English is composer, artist and curator based in Australia. Working across an eclectic array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work prompts questions of field, perception and memory. He investigates the politics of perception, through live performance and installation, to create works that ponder subtle transformations of space and ask audiences to become aware of that which exists at the edge of perception.

4 — The Album Immediate Horizon

An album I’ve been listening to a lot has been Immediate Horizon. I listen to it when I’m walking in here in the short gray days of the Midwestern winter and think.

5 — Randome Thing

Here is a clip of English talking about stuff.

6– Where is Lawerence English?

Lawerene English on Bandcamp(https://lawrenceenglish.bandcamp.com/),Spotify(https://open.spotify.com/artist/0V1EXFlRy3LeOKB07YJucI), Apple Music(https://music.apple.com/us/artist/lawrence-english/220399218).

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