Chaordic Processes
Sun, 13 Aug 2000, 08:52 amGrant Malcolm2 posts in thread
Chaordic Processes
Sun, 13 Aug 2000, 08:52 amDriving home late after a show i heard a discussion on the radio about chaordic processes with the originator of the term Dee Hock, founder of the VISA, the largest business enterprise on earth.
Hock defines chaordic as:
(kay'ordic) 1: anything simultaneously orderly and chaotic. 2: patterned in a way dominated neither by order nor chaos. 3: existing in the phase between order and chaos.
I couldn't help but be struck by the fact that he's writing about the arts and perhaps theatre in particular. The truly breathtaking thing about watching a live performace is watching actors walking that knife's edge between chaos and order, never quite knowing what is going to happen next even when we know how the play ends.
Chaordic would also been an apt term to describe the process of experimentation that takes place in the rehearsal room. The script, actors bodies, rehearsal space and time are all forces of order in tension with the need to chaotically explore the myriad of possibilities presenting themselves to the actors and director.
The notion of chaords has particular application to this website, too. As it neatly describes the ferment that occurs here in the grey area between the order of a static web page and the chaos of a newsgroup.
In the light of some suggestions - none posted here yet - that contributions to this site should be censored, moderated or registered, I found this quote particularly telling:
"Fundamentally, we have an institutional problem. Until we understand and deal with it, all of our societal problems will get progressively worse. Above all else, we will never deal with it until we realize it is not a problem at all but an unbelievable opportunity."
At any rate, Hock's book Birth of the Chaordic Age sounds like a worthwhile read for people from many disciplines.
Cheers
Grant
Hock defines chaordic as:
(kay'ordic) 1: anything simultaneously orderly and chaotic. 2: patterned in a way dominated neither by order nor chaos. 3: existing in the phase between order and chaos.
I couldn't help but be struck by the fact that he's writing about the arts and perhaps theatre in particular. The truly breathtaking thing about watching a live performace is watching actors walking that knife's edge between chaos and order, never quite knowing what is going to happen next even when we know how the play ends.
Chaordic would also been an apt term to describe the process of experimentation that takes place in the rehearsal room. The script, actors bodies, rehearsal space and time are all forces of order in tension with the need to chaotically explore the myriad of possibilities presenting themselves to the actors and director.
The notion of chaords has particular application to this website, too. As it neatly describes the ferment that occurs here in the grey area between the order of a static web page and the chaos of a newsgroup.
In the light of some suggestions - none posted here yet - that contributions to this site should be censored, moderated or registered, I found this quote particularly telling:
"Fundamentally, we have an institutional problem. Until we understand and deal with it, all of our societal problems will get progressively worse. Above all else, we will never deal with it until we realize it is not a problem at all but an unbelievable opportunity."
At any rate, Hock's book Birth of the Chaordic Age sounds like a worthwhile read for people from many disciplines.
Cheers
Grant
RE: Chaordic Processes
Wed, 16 Aug 2000, 10:11 amWalter Plinge
Grant,
Obviously your car radio is stuck on one channel and can't be shifted. I'd get it fixed ASAP.
Dean
Obviously your car radio is stuck on one channel and can't be shifted. I'd get it fixed ASAP.
Dean