[探索一] definitions
A LOOK INTO DEFINITIONS
:::Liminality:::
Etymology: Latin limen ‘threshold’
Definition:
“Turner describes the liminal as a period of transition. . . During the time spent in this condition, a person abandons his or her old identity and dwells in a threshold state of ambiguity, openness and indeterminancy. Only after undergoing this process may one enter into new forms of identity and relationship, and rejoin the everyday life of the culture. . . “
Anthropology:
the transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which the participant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, shows obedience and humility, and follows prescribed forms of conduct, dress, etc.
Interesting reads on social-anthropological context with regards to liminality:
resource 1 (recommended)
resource 2 (recommended)
resource 3
“The purpose . . . is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one person
for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,
and invisible guest come in and out at will. “
A “not so related but interesting read” on ghost and liminality:
http://www.tricksterbook.com/ArticlesOnline/GhostsAndLiminality.html
阈,閾,yù – pronounciation
1. 泛指界限或范围;界限 [limit;bounds;scope;range]。如:视阈;听阈
2. 门户;门口 [gate;door]; 门坎
- 视阈 ( 視閾 ) shì yù; [visual threshold] 能产生视觉的最高限度和最低限度的刺激强度
- 听阈 ( 聽閾 ) tīng yù; [threshold of audibillty] 在试验的特定部分中能引起听感的特定信号的最小有效声压值;阈值可用相当于0.0002微巴或1微巴的分贝数来表示
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QUIESCE – To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound; become quiet or quieter; Quieten; To make temporarily inactive or disabled
As a technical computer jargon:
is used to describe pausing or altering the state of running processes on a computer particularly those that might modify information stored on disk during a backup in order to guarantee a consistent and usable backup.
to put a computer, a program, a thread , or some other computer resource into a temporarily inactive or inhibited state.
To temporarily render inactive.
(computer science) To prevent a computer system from starting new jobs so that the system gradually winds down as current jobs are completed, usually in preparation for a planned outage.
To render quiescent, i.e. temporarily inactive or disabled. For example to quiesce a device
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At this juncture, I think we are still looking at it from a very basic approach of “definition” but already I think it is very interesting and draws some co-relations in each other as well as in the art forms we do. There is a lot to “choose” from and I think it serves as a basic palette for us to start forming ideas and concepts (or approaches) with relation to our art forms.
On a side note, searching for “QUIESCE” and “阈” as images using google, both came back with results of images of technical/mechanical images (graphs, ideograms, charts, etc)… rather coincidental… Next up, I will be pulling in references of “liminality” with regards to performances (perhaps with space and sound as well)…
