In a book—a hippie classic whose title I can’t recall—a character makes a case for surrendering to the rain. When it pours from the sky, she says, don’t resist the water. Let go of that umbrella. Step out from under the awning.
I suspect the writer lived in California, where it’s warmer and rains far less than here. So that character has it easy, then.
We, on the other hand, with all our showers, have more chances to practice: to exercise seeing see rain not as an obstacle or disruption, but as life—as that what “happens while we’re busy making other plans.”
NOON does something similar with the idea of a virus. From our bodies’ perspective, viruses are destructive non-things, but the virus has a different take. Look at its behavior, and you see an entity that exists in total fullness by virtue of contact with the other. From April 6 to 26, NOON is in residence at Two Dogs Company in Brussels. On April 24, the studio will be open to the public.