Liliane Lijn
Anti-Gravity Koan   1969

170 x 102 cm diameter
5’6" x 40" diameter

Perspex, fibre-glass, turntable, fluorescent light; kinetic.

Flaines Cultural Centre, France 1971.

Koan is a Japanese word for a paradoxical riddle given to young Buddhist monks as aids for meditation. A typical Koan would be What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? I used this as the title for a fiIm I made in 1975 about the Koan series of my work.