The Journal of Projective Kinetics has as its goal the enhancement of consciousness in and around kinetic events. We adopt Alwin Nikolais’ definition of kinetics: “Kinetics is motion which contains its own intelligence.” Wherever motion is the main subject our writing may want to wander. The bias in the writing will be to regard the kinetic event as having a life of its own while yet, perhaps paradoxically, a life always interwoven with its context. We accept Buckminster Fuller’s dictum that there is always an a priori environment. A spectrum will exist for us, therefore, in writing about the purity or formality of the event to writing about the entire contextual field in which it is embedded.
An example: a simple dance concert. One can write about the choreography, dancing, costumes, lighting, music, the occasion, the theater, the audience, the pre-publicity and/or the reputation of the company. Each of these is involved intimately in the whole kinetic event. One has seen mediocre choreography receive standing ovations, and in such cases the occasion, the audience, the pre-publicity or the reputation may need some verbal light shined upon them. One has seen excellent choreography in obscure lofts applauded by five lonely aficionados, and in such cases the occasion is of little account while the detailed content of the dancing is monumental. Perhaps. It all depends.
Another example: the handling by the vendors at the Public Market of fruit, vegetables, fish and meat. Does one return to a certain vendor only because of price or is his/her manner in motion somehow part of the exchange that makes the Public Market a necessary ritual in one’s weekly life? Do the vendors who grow their own products locally move differently than those import them form the other side of the continent? Perhaps. It all depends.
Every kinetic event is unique and in the name of philosophy, psychology, biology, physics and good cooking must be understood as such. Every kinetic event is also enmeshed in a network of other events sometimes close and sometimes far. A kinetic event may last one second or three days. A kinetic event is a small demon of energy or a lumbering giant of politics. A kinetic event will always leave its dynamic wake in the deep and keen memory of our bodies. In writing we can awake to that wake.
