Einstein once said something to the effect that in order to solve a problem one has to think of it entirely differently then from within the problem, as one usually does (when dealing with a difficult problem.. one dwells 'inside' its obstacles to clarity, etc.).
In other words, to come up with a solution or working hypothesis, one has to see the problematic in an entirely different way, then how one does or how one 'feels' it or about it, from inside the problem.
The solution, so to speak, presents itself from an entirely different perspective.
In a sense then this becomes a matter of frequencies...
from within the problem is a whole set of discourses, frequencies, senses, etc.
but if one can see the 'whole' of the thing or even just glimpse it from a different 'position' entirely ...then insight, clues and hunches can possibly start to open up... more productively towards 'answering' the problematic.
One could say that the problems are on one frequency. While the solution is on an entirely other.
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this then suggests the idea of methods and experiments to open one up to 'other' spaces of 'seeing' or re-discovering the 'sense' of the thing in its whole..
including such things as simply attempting to see it from a totally 'other' perspective.
what does this issue look like for a person coming to Dusseldorf for carnival? Do they even see it? Or are they blindfolded in a way, with the excitement and spectacle-fun of the carnival times? So does carnival times ironically obscure being able to 'see' the power and problem of 'avant-garde' performance in dusseldorf?
What does the Question look like for a dog?
What does the Question look like for a business woman in Dusseldorf? (perhaps she would be intrigued with the kind of theater that Tim Etchells describes?! Rather then only have carnival or bars or classical, traditional-modern theater/symphony etc. as an option to go to on an evening...)
What does the Question look like for a teenager?
etc. etc.
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