Tale V: Rhythm Place

People often understand rhythm as a mechanical act, a movement, a beat, but in fact, rhythm is a temporal concept within a Spatio-temporal unity. Rhythm necessarily unfolds in space and time, where time and space are unified in rhythm. In rhythmic space, the rhythms of different people crisscross, either parallel or intersecting in space. In each area, there are centralised rhythmic direction changeover stations. In the changeover stations, one can choose how and where to move in the next section.

It is the dialectical movement between cyclical cycles and linear repetition that constitutes time and rhythm. In the deep structure of modernity and everyday constructions, the interplay between diverse and unified rhythms increasingly manifests itself as a violent conflict between them, with linear social rhythms altering and controlling the natural rhythms of cyclicality. As a result, modern everyday life is increasingly moulded into a monotonous linear repetition, the eternal cycle of the same becoming a fundamental feature of modern everyday life, the homogeneity and fragmentation of space and time leading to the emptiness of life. People in everyday life are caught in a paradoxical situation: they can experience ‘undeniable satisfaction’ and feel ‘deeply depressed’ at the same time. However relentless and cruel the monotony of linear time may be, the natural rhythms of the universe and vitality continue to have an impact on everyday life. Only when people are consciously aware that their lives are bound up in the ‘rhythm of appearances’, the ‘mirror image’ of life, can they return to their bodies and create a vibrant space of difference and a festive, modern everyday life in accordance with the real needs of life.