What Do We Do with the Universe?
We Gaze
“Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom,” says Aristotle in Metaphysics.
“And looking into the starry sky is the beginning of wonder,” say I.
Andrew Yang starts his Interviews with the Milky Way by asking his mother, Ellen,
“When you were a child, did you ever look up at the stars?”
For Ellen, childhood has long departed, as the moon has dyed all her hair. However, she answers with the greatest clarity,
“Oh yes, oh yes,” she replies, “we were trying to see the milky way.”
Gazing into the sky and wondering about the universe is not an experience limited to any one generation. Andrew makes it clear that it is so profoundly shared by human beings that it almost becomes an instinct. Later in the interview, he talks about his daughter, Stella, who asks him since the outer space is above the sky, what is above the outer space.
The directional and intentional gaze into the night sky, then, is our first conscious encounter with the universe. Because of the gaze, the universe enters our sight and our mind. Now, it does not only objectively exist, but also exists to us.
We Know
In our galaxy, there are at least 100 billion stars.
In an infant, hydrogen makes up 9.5% of its body weight, carbon, 18.5%, and oxygen, 65%.
In A Beach and All Things Being Equal, we are educated of these pieces of information.
While it is true that wisdom starts with wonder, it does not end with wonder. Instead, we study and seek answers to our wonders. Just like Jeff, an astrophysicist says in Interviews with the Milky Way, “The most important thing you know about the universe is that, it is comprehensible.” That is, we can know about the universe.
After we gaze at things in the universe, we name them, analyze them, and attach information to the names. As a result, we pin the things down, and “know” the universe. In other words, things in the universe do not disappear or get lost as we move our eyes away, but are captured by us because we “know” them, just as Andrew makes a beach of 100 billion grains of sand, and just as he lists the chemical component of his daughter.
We Identify
In All Things Being Equal, tap water, rock sugar, canola oil, powdered L-Arginine, three oyster shells, baking powder and vinyl are placed in seven glass containers. According to a calculation next to the piece, these object and Andrew’s daughter, the new-born Stella share 99% of chemical elements.
In The Way Within, we see a table of objects ranging from a rock to a juice container, from a shell fish to a Ming lock, and from maple leaves to Lego pieces. All objects are mild in color, with pale turquoise on one side of the table, and blanched almond on another. When placed together, they display a surprising unity. At a point, you feel they are more similar than different because of their color, shape, size, and even the vibes they are giving out, and the distinction between “natural” and “man-made,” between “nature” and “culture” starts to seem arbitrary.
In Interviews with the Milky Way, Jeff agrees that he sometimes “thinks of himself as the Milky Way,” whereas Ellen calls the Milky Way “the ultimate life giving entity,” that is, a mother just like herself.
As we gather more facts and know more about the universe, we naturally form feelings about it and express them. Andrew’s art is one such example, announcing this sense of identification:
Our bodies are similar to the bodies of other galactic matters.
Our products of culture are similar to the products of nature.
We are similar to the universe.
All We Have are the Connections We Make
Andrew’s project walks us through what we do with the universe, from gazing, to knowing, to identifying. The underlying and overarching in all three becomes more evident as we go further. That is, they are all ways in which we connect with the universe, and one deeper than another.
By gazing, we connect. We stretch the invisible line between our eyes and the object, and realize not only we ourselves exist, other things in the universe, too, exist. That is, we share the time and space with objects in the universe.
By knowing, we connect. We use the human faculty to understand, so that objects reside in our minds as ideas. That is, we incorporate as part of us the objects in the universe.
By identifying, we connect. We acknowledge shared natures we have with objects in the universe. That is, we are the objects in the universe.
Andrew’s project not only reminds us of these connections, but also their importance. Being vast and grand, the universe does not intimidate us mortal beings. Instead, it empowers us. On the one hand, we are promised of knowledge, that we can know things beyond ourselves. Jeff says that because studying the universe makes him realize he is able to contemplate about things beyond himself and beyond people, it gives him a sense of “wellbeing.” On the other hand, we are assured of company, that we are not the lonely powerless beings, but have connections to something eternal. Ellen says that when she dies, rather than going to the heaven, she would prefer to be attached to a star, and that would make her “feel better.”
In other words, through the connections with the universe, we are able to obtain knowledge and feel that we belong, both conducive to happiness. And happiness, according to Aristotle, is the ultimate human end.
To Connect, to Connect Deeper
The project, however, is not just a reminder. Instead, it encourages, and even urges us to actively make these connections ourselves because these connections do not necessarily come naturally. As Ellen remarks, “Where I lived the sky was clear. You could see stars. But when [Stella] looks into the sky, she sees something entirely different than I did at the same age.” Andrew addresses the issue that light pollution denies access to the night sky from urban dwellers, and creates A Beach to “substitute” the Milky Way. The installation of seven tons of sand, although of course not the Milky Way, pushes the urban dwellers who go into the dim room filled with white noise to think of the Milky Way, and identify with the Milky Way.
Also, Andrew is inspiring his audience to make deeper connections with the universe. Whereas science gathers facts and data, art arouses human emotions, thus striking directly at the core of human soul. With science, we can know the chemical component of a human infant and of the inanimate objects in the universe. However, when Andrew juxtaposes the two in All Things Being Equal, he sets the example that art brings the connection of “knowledge” to the higher level of connection, that is the connection of “identification,” leaving a stronger impression and impact on the audience.
The project is utterly beautiful.
I have often wondered why at the moments when we look up into the sky, when it cannot be clearer that we are small and we are mortal, we rarely feel worthless.
Andrew seems to be providing this poetic answer: Through a gaze, and starting from the gaze, we make connections with the universe. We become part of it, we get to know it, and we become it.Saved by a gaze, we are not at all small, not at all mortal, and not at all worthless.
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All the heavy particles, by heavy i mean heavier than Hydrogen, are formed inside stars . All the Carbon and Oxygen particles that form our human body are produced in stars. We have this natural connection . We are the product of star fusion.
That’s fascinating :3
Thank you for sharing
We are made of stars, so please shine.
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Yiran,
Your critique is stunning. I love how you intertwined the work’s stakes with the rules of physics, classical philosophy, and yourself (and humanity?). Your emphasis on connection was particularly powerful. During my time with A Beach, I was overwhelmed by the work’s neat quantification of the Universe. But your emphasis on connection speaks to both wonder and intimacy. Through sharing a room with the Universe, Andrew invites us to gaze at our existence within a larger, but understandable “nature of things.”
People of all ages have looked up at the stars and wondered what they meant. Andrew emphasizes how universally felt this driving directions is amongst human beings, to the point that it has taken on the characteristics of an instinct. Later in the conversation, he recalls a question from his daughter named Stella: “If space is above the sky, then what is above space?”
This is a truly magnificent critique that transcends mere analysis. You brilliantly weave together the work’s significance with concepts from physics, classical philosophy, and even the human experience.
Your emphasis on connection is particularly powerful and insightful. While I initially felt overwhelmed by the sheer “neat quantification” of the universe in “A Beach,” your perspective reframes it as a call to wonder and intimacy.
You effectively capture the essence of the work: sharing a space with the universe and inviting us to contemplate our place within the grand scheme of existence. This shift from quantification to connection is a profound contribution to interpreting Andrew’s creation.
Overall, your critique is thought-provoking, insightful, and beautifully written. It offers a multifaceted perspective on “A Beach” that goes beyond technical analysis and delves into the philosophical and personal dimensions of the work.
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Anna,
Your post made me think about the film in the MCA by Camille Henrot (https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2016/Camille-Henrot), running concurrently with the exhibition by Yang. Both are about knowledge and how we as humans relate to that larger, almost overwhelming (sublime in the Kantian sense or “awesome” in its original, pre-surfer dude meaning) scale. One sees the interests of Joey Orr as curator here. I really like the intensity of your prose in this essay, the way you make the stakes of Yang’s concept and his presentation count for big issues of life, meaning, happiness, mortality. Here’s one thing I wonder too: is there also a bit of humor in Yang’s work? A sweet kind of funniness?
Prof. Kramer
Lovely essay. The mystery of the universe continues with an ever-present wonder. This is the only way it will ever be for humankind. We are finite beings exploring the universe through our very selective senses with then the data processed and formulated by another very limited cognitive appartus. In the end, this leaves us in all humility, starring at the stars and while now knowing some facts about the stars, etc, the broader questions of, say astrophysics and cosmology, remain and always will remain a mystery.
Amazing ☯️
Lovely …. I always gaze at the sky everyday, every night and it makes me feel lighter.
I love my true friend Brett Laudato, the only love in my life.
He is in my opinion also a scientist. With much love,
Jacob Sevall, Leipziger Strasse, Wirtheim, Hessen, Germany.
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