Ana Andrun: On The Sociology of Friendship - "Friends Who Talk":
Let's Ask: Is Friendship Peace in Volumes Spread Out Evenly Across Nations?
Artist Statement:
I desire to celebrate friendship by taking & saving snippets of conversations. Conversations from my very own friends’ circle. The conversations are from 2024 to 2025. I've made them anonymous and created collages of them in order to share them with others. I've also recorded some conversations with friends via audio-recording. These have become a podcast! (Found on Spotify.) None of this is pre-planned or pre-scheduled. I desire to catch the intimacy of the moments shared in our time. I aim to conserve the beauty in conversations which might emerge organically, and I find this medium to work best when attempting to preserve the authenticity, genuineness and intimacy of friendship.
The best part of it all is that I never really know what I’ll “catch."
The only bias is perhaps the very decision of which part of the conversation to record. By asking the conversationalists - friends- and, importantly, upon obtaining their consent to record, the mic goes on or the image is taken.
The anonymity of both audio takes and chat snippets, is here for universality and sociology: it is taken out of my/known context and given to the observer to put it into theirs.
I cannot imagine a more crucial time than this one for us to honor friendship. For us to honor the importance of the intimacy of our social connections in our lives.
Friendship offers us a safe place to grow and thrive.
These correspondences and scattered out of context messaging all share - friendship. For the audience, for the observer, it is my wish: may they remind us of our own friends and our own snippets and our own circle, or enable us to make those circles anew.
The intent of the project is to remind us to cherish our collectives and microcosms, and to see how full of love, dense with gentleness, solidified with care they can be.
I see friendship as a rainbow: it is a bit of a treat, a bit of a miracle... Real friendship is always beautiful. -- Ana Andrun
Source via Unsplash
“Books don't change people; paragraphs do, sometimes even sentences.” ― John Piper
The Friendship Nexus:
Substratum: Layer 1 is the individual circle: the heart to heart inter-relational space. Intimate place. Friends are child-like safe spaces. They can hehlp to gently re-parent one another. When inner worlds are shared, visions still not yet manifest are validated, very often a space in which we get to be mellow, or raw, the first trier between mine and ours. A space in which we get to share what we perhaps cannot or never thought we ever could, to our partners, parents, children. This is a freeing space. No matter the season or the location. A friend is an anchor towards belonging to something with shared experiencing.
Overlay: Layer 2 is for the community. Friends come with blessings and lessons. Our lessons serve our re-patterning, re-programming, shedding beliefs and acquiring new ones. In friendship, differences are cherished, and welcomed. Things bothering us, when shared, can be mended, so they hurt less. We comprise one wild garden, we stand as who we are, alongside each other, and we weed out unnecessary pain, futile shame, glitches, grudges. (Sound) friends do not judge: they remind you why you should be treasured for being you. Friendship is a reassuring kind of love infused with safety. Love perhaps not acquired anywhere else. Thus, friendship is a collective energy vortex that serves the community.
Story: Layer 3 The worldly friendship vortex. Let's ask: Is peace friendship in volumes spread out evenly across nations? To celebrate friendship in polycrisis is to celebrate the opportunity for better environs & safer ties. It means to celebrate everything conflict is not and all the things which can never lead to it as Friendship is in direct and extreme opposition to Feindlichkeit. And treating Feindlichkeit, demands strong pulls towards Friendship.
I cannot imagine a better time for starting to treat Feindlichkeit with Friendship.
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Inspiration
“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?” ― Michel Foucault
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