Concealment by proximity links stage magic to tender intimate perception

Evidence

‘Hiding in plain sight’ is a great idea, something that’s very interesting in itself – on one level connected with sleight of hand and parlour tricks and conmen, but on the other hand, very subtle, intuition led perceptions. It could give rise to situations that are tremendously moving, fragile, tender. Metaphorically very resonant. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 411

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: Bridging the conman’s concealment with tenderness — hiding in plain sight as the mechanics of intimacy, not just deception.
• XREF: connects to: Intimacy strips disguises to expose the other’s flesh as pure contingency — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 897; The power to not-see is constitutive of seeing itself; Immersive staging physically reoriented spectators into a clambering, exposed position — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1668

Broader Connections

• Immersive staging physically reoriented spectators into a clambering, exposed position #expands (0.80) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1668
• Intimacy strips disguises to expose the other’s flesh as pure contingency #corroborates (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 897
• The power to not-see is constitutive of seeing itself #complicates (0.70)