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“My idea was to bring out the unknown parts in people by reflecting the mirror of time with my mirror.” - Yayoi Kusama

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The optimal thing or development of the piece would be to build some kind of infinity room with light installations:

Microsofts infinity room:
https://vimeo.com/95136221

HyperCube:
https://youtu.be/gh5GuHL2JQo

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A self-reflective introspection on beingness and time.

Immanent level: ca. 15min. One person at the time. Gets silent discos and entering the box. Some kind of story or proposal of infinity, time and the self. The participant are encouraged to keep their eyes open at all times.

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I want to build a mirror box. At the size of a human being. The space should be big enough for a approxm 2 meter long person to sit on a meditation pillow inside of it. The box must have some kind of light system so the person sitting there can se 'emself.

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Aion, god of the ages, in a celestial sphere decorated with zodiacal signs, between a green and a dismantled tree (summer and winter). Before him is the mother-earth Tellus (Roman Gaia) with four children, the four seasons personified

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Aion (Greek: Αἰών) is a Hellenistic deity associated with time, the orb or circle encompassing the universe, and the zodiac. The "time" represented by Aion is unbounded, in contrast to Chronos as empirical time divided into past, present, and future.[1]

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Plato used the word aeon to denote the eternal world of ideas, which he conceived was "behind" the perceived world, as demonstrated in his famous allegory of the cave.

The Order of Nine Angles, a UK-based Left Hand Path/Satanic organisation propose the concept of Aeons are central to the esoteric philosophy developed by the pseudonymous Anton Long, who wrote that "an aeon is the term used [by the O9A] to describe a stage or a type of evolution. Evolution itself is taken to result from a certain specific process – and this process can be described, or explained [or 're-presented' ] via a bifurcation of time. That is, evolution is an expression of how the cosmos changes over or through or because of,'time' – this 'time' having two components. These two components are the causal and the acausal ...

"An aeon is a manifestation, in the causal, of a particular type of acausal energy. This energy re-orders, or changes, the causal. These changes have certain limits – in both causal space and causal time. That is, they have a specific beginning and a specific end. A civilization (or rather, a higher or aeonic-civilization) is how this energy becomes ordered or manifests itself in the causal: how this energy is revealed. A civilization represents the practical changes which this energy causes in the causal -in terms of the effect such energy has on individuals and this planet. A civilization is tied to, is born from, a particular aeon. By the nature of this energy, a civilization is an evolution of life – a move toward a more complex, and thus more conscious existence ..."[11]

Aeon may also be an archaic name for omnipotent beings, such as gods.

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AION -- originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time", though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timeless" or "for eternity"

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Aion/Aeon: Greek αἰών "time, eternity; age"

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What if those are the best at this moment in time?

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I have to find the link to one of his lectures about this topic

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Of all humanity’s delusions of difference, of its separation from and superiority to the living world which surrounds it, one distinction holds up better than most: we may well be the first species capable of effectively eliminating life on Earth. For a very long time, we imagined that ‘nature’ was something that happened elsewhere. The delusion of isolation under which we have laboured for so long has cut us off from life on the only planet we have, or are ever likely to have. 

But as the first disillusioned generations born into this new and unprecedented(ənˈpresəˌdəntid) age of ecocide.

“What, do we mean by the word I?”

There seem still to be a consensus about this - a certain agreement. Especially among people who lives in Western civilizations. Most of us feel I - Ego: Myself; my source of consciousness, to be a center of awareness and a source of action that resides in the middle of a bag of skin. And so, we have what the philosopher Alan Watts called the conception of ourselves as a skin encapsulated ego.

We speak in our culture of coming into this world, and this whole sensation that we are brought up to have: of being an island of consciousness locked up in a bag of skin; facing outsiders. A world that is profoundly alien to us in the sense that what is outside me, is not me. This sets up a fundamental sensation of hostility and estrangement between ourselves and the so called: ”External world”.

As Albert Einstein wrote, that a “human being is part of a whole, called by us the “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.“

That it is was Martin Luther King termed the “inescapable network of mutuality,” in which “whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”


That is the anima mundi, the soul of the world. The correspondences between all parts of the emergent universe. What Plato called “a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence … a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.”

So what do we mean by the word I?

Everything we know about living organisms from the standpoints of the sciences shows us that we do not come into this world - we grow out of this world. That we - each one of us  - are what you might call symptoms, of the state of the universe as a whole. You are what the universe is doing right now. But you see that is not a part of our common sense. 

In “Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious” Carl Jung laments(lameents) our loss of connection to the anima mundi when he points out that “The development of Western philosophy during the last two centuries has succeeded in isolating the mind in its own sphere and in severing it from its primordial(prīˈmôrdēəl) oneness with the universe. Man himself has ceased to be the microcosm and eidolon(īˈdōlən) of the cosmos, and his “anima” is no longer the consubstantial(consubstÄnchial) scintilla(sinˈtilə), that to say; spark of the Anima Mundi, World Soul”

This is our story.
But to know this; is also to know that this is just a story.


When you breathe in, the perpetual exchange
When you breathe out, the mutual interdependence

The self is what the Buddhist calls “Maya” - an illusion, where it is merely individual and finite - where it considers its separateness as absolute.
It is satyam - truth, where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, the Supreme Self, in paramatman - the cosmic consciousness of the universe.

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The Enlightenment and its emphasis on reason has brought humanity great progress. Yet, societies that rely on reason alone are cold, nihilistic and ultimately murderous. To re-enchant the world, to find a new faith, one that can give the individual meaning and society stability, is the largely unspoken promise of Metamodernity. But who are its prophets? How do we come together under one vision?

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Wars, the Holocaust, Holdomor and slavery have scarred the psychological makeup of the entire globe. We carry the sins of our ancestors with us, as well as their traumas, sometimes down to the level of our gene expression. How do we recognize these traumas? How do they affect our living together? Is healing possible on a collective level? Or is it only the individual that can heal her/himself?

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If the 20th century has taught us anything, it is that utopias lead to catastrophe. Yet, if we stop any attempts to improve society, we might as well stop living altogether. How do we find the golden mean, and build eutopia, the good place?

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Why do we find somebody attractive? Can we love more than one person at a time? For a long time, we were told gender is „just a social construct“. But  our desires aren’t as malleable as social constructivism suggests. What does that mean for our self-concept? How can we practice sexuality in a healthy and respectful manner?

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Bildung is the deliberate development of our personality, moral, social and spiritual gifts to enable us to take responsibility for our own lives. We seek to revive this largely forgotten  ideal that inspired exceptional minds like Rousseau, Goethe, Kierkegaard and von Humboldt, and combine it with contemporary developmental theory.

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The Cartesian split between matter and mind is a thing of the past. We’re now realizing that all all meaning-making and understanding of who we are is grounded in our bodies. To realize that our brains are in fact our entire body is one of the challenges on the way to a new, more complete understanding of ourselves. What is the philosophical paradigm of embodiment? How did it come about? And what techniques can we use to facilitate integration?

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Tradition isn’t just old dust to sweep away. It can not only guide us, but also provides us with a felt, bodily sense of belonging that everyone needs in this crazy world. How can we live traditions without becoming excluding to others? Can we deliberately create new traditions, or do they emerge by themselves from the collective unconscious?

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The Extropist Manifesto

A global movement that updates and expands upon “The Extropian Principles” written by Max More in 1998.

Extropism is an optimistic, futuristic philosophy that can be summed up in the following five phrases:

Endless eXtension

Transcending Restriction

Overcoming Property

Intelligence

Smart Machines

In more detail, the Extropist philosophy and world-view promotes:

Endless eXtension - Extropists seek perpetual growth and progress in all aspects of human endeavor. We are, as a species and as a culture, never finished or in any essential way complete. Instead, we continually pursue knowledge, we constantly experiment, we forever continue to develop techniques that improve our minds, our bodies, our culture and our environment. Extropists affirm this belief and take it to its logical conclusion.

We desire the technology and understanding that allows us to continually transform and augment the human body until we attain radically expanded lifespans, super-human wisdom & physical/neurological powers beyond anything we can imagine today. We intend to improve our culture & environment until we’ve instituted a fluid society that guarantees an euphoric existence to all those who desire it. We believe that there are sufficient resources available on Earth, in the solar system, and in the cosmos, to maintain endless growth and advancement.

Transcending Restrictions – Since they are ultimately inspired by growth, progress and continual development, extropists wish to abolish all restrictions imposed by religion, protectionism, segregation, racism, bigotry, sexism, ageism, and any of the other archaic fears and hatreds that continue to limit us today. We seek freedom for all living creatures and we believe that all of humanity can work together - without limits - in joyful social relationships that are based on honest communication and empathetic kindness.

We oppose authoritarian laws, surveillance and social control. We favor freedom of speech, freedom of action and freedom of experimentation in our constant striving to transcend all limitations to human potential. We also desire the ability to direct human evolution; to rise above our present animalistic behavior of conflict and domination and to abandon all physically and psychologically unhealthy inherited traits. Using genetic therapy and technical augmentations we will be able to create more advanced minds living in healthier human bodies. We will be able to remove neurological, physical and mental diseases that have plagued humanity since time immemorial. Ultimately, we want life and the way that we live it to be a conscious choice that isn’t limited by a sudden onset of disease or genetically programmed death.

Overcoming Property - We wish to reform archaic, out-dated human laws that govern possession by improving and/or annihilating terms such as ownership, copyright, patent, money and property. We believe that present regulations promote greed and are ultimately destructive to a far larger degree than they are beneficial. Millions of people are dying every year because pharmaceutical companies are unwilling to share their discoveries and insist on selling their products at murderous, unconscionable prices. The movie and music industries are successfully alienating their own customers by going after people who share files with each other on the Internet. We believe it is madness that anyone can own an idea, a blueprint, a thought, a melody or a genome. Human progress will advance far faster if knowledge, culture and resources are shared by everyone for the general welfare of all Earth’s inhabitants.

Intelligence - Extropy is the opposite of entropy; it is the inverse of chaos and lethargy. In a way, it is the only exception to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Extropy is intelligence, creativity, order, critical thinking, ingenuity and boundless energy. The most valuable material in the universe is information and the imagination to do something with it; with these two qualities there is truly no limit to what can be accomplished. We believe in optimism, independent thinking, personal responsibility, self-direction, self-esteem, critical thinking and respect for others. We do not believe in doing things because that’s how they’ve always been done, we believe in rational thought; utilizing our deductive reasoning abilities instead of depending on blind, irrational faith, superstition and traditional dogma.

Smart Machines - A primary goal of Extropism is the attainment of Friendly Artificial Intelligence. We promote the development of robots, computers, and all machines that can emulate human thought, copy minds, and attain intelligence that exceeds human ability. We fully endorse the ambitious projects ongoing in the world today where robots are being built to facilitate in everything from the care of the elderly to the building of better machines. In this respect, extropists are singularitarians. We believe that once Intelligent AI has been developed, many of the other extropist goals will follow naturally and in short order. We support all funding for research that promotes this ambition, and we oppose all legislation that impedes progress towards this intention.

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The festival's themes which we have to dock into in some sense.

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"self-reflexive re-emergence of myth, meaning and purpose"

https://www.metamodern-arts-festival.com/metamodernity

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But how does the mind transform it’s own perception of self? (ego/era of individualism) How can we - as products of the idea of “the individual self” reconnect with each other, nature, other living beings and the planet itself? Where does this sense of separation - that is the cartesian dualism - start? If we could become aware and pinpoint its whereabouts, or how it presents itself in our self-perception - would we be able to transcend this notion and undecieve the mind from the reign of the individual?

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to develop practical methodology to transform the individual into an ecologically and socially sustainable being

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Daniel Slåttnes

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We pictured ourself separated from the source of our existence. But human beings were never separated from nature. The Cartesian dualism or Modernistic Subject/Object is an optical illusion of the mind

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39oGOraeL8M

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Video documentation from a performance at Podium Oslo in December 2015. Part of the exhibition Seances with materials.

I connected an amplifier to a plant from my studio. The amplified electrical signals going through the plant was then turned into sounds in real time so I could listen to the plant. I had an EEG apparatus on my head that in the same way picked up the electrical signals in my mind and turned them into sounds for the plant to hear.

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Throughout history there has been an abundance of disparate ideas and struggle concerning the organization and governance of human society. What kind of society do we actually want? Today, the year is 2019 and the unassailable global economy, the world of consumer democracy which is being forged worldwide - is tearing at its fabric. It was built upon an optimistic vision of endless progress, which is a myth of endless natural resources - entwined with the narrative of human beings as something separated from nature, and the first species to have learnt to master it.

The fallout from this delusion is now all around us with rainforests and oceans being devastated, biological diversity hovering on the brink of extinction, human beings consuming more of the natural ‘products’ than earth can replace, exceeding social inequality - and on top of it all looms runaway climate change. Climate change, which threatens to render all human projects irrelevant.
We are the first generations born into a new and unprecedented age — the age of ecocide. As the brim of the waterfall emerges we share the inevitable responsibility to turn the current of development. The global foundation addresses this catastrophically complex problems, articulated in the uncompelling guidance of the Paris Climate Agreement and the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development. But if you read a common national party programme today you’ll find only liminal modifications of tax rates and investments to solve the situation. The political sphere is completely bind up by the principle of infinite economic growth -  that is the infinite exploitation of natural and human resources.

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[ 1.0 ] Eutopia*
In contrary to its more commonly use comparative “Utopia” - which means no-place, an impossible ideal - “Eutopia” is a place of ideal well being, eminently attainable in the real as a practical aspiration.

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A MUST READ - Metamodern transcendence and the Return of Myth!

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A MUST READ - Metamodern transcendence and the Return of Myth!

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http://www.metamodernism.com/2014/10/21/reconstruction-metamodern-transcendence-and-the-return-of-myth/

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Just as science strives for poetic elegance, artists might assume a quest for truth. All information is grounds for knowledge, whether empirical or aphoristic, no matter its truth-value. We should embrace the scientific-poetic synthesis and informed naivety of a magical realism. Error breeds sense.

- Metamodernist Manifesto §7
http://www.metamodernism.org/

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"All things are caught within the irrevocable slide towards a state of maximum entropic dissemblance."

- Metamodernist Manifesto §5
http://www.metamodernism.org/

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The transformative self;
BECOMING EUTOPIAN

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What we need to accomplish before the 25th

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What we need to accomplish before the 25th

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-> CV (PDF, max 2 pages)
-> Portfolio or some pictures/other samples (could be audio or video) from recent works (PDF, max 10 pages, up to 10MB)

Proposal Should include:
--> Project title
Artistic medium/ presentation format
--> Concept
--> Requirements: space, equipment, duration, how many people can attend/be involved, anything else (like perhaps project requires darkness, or so)*

--> Motivation letter: short (around 3 paragraphs) text describing how the proposed submission fits into our concept

*Please note that you can also create an outdoor installation, perform on the street or do an action/ intervention in a public space (of course, if this complies with local laws).