Echoism

 

Installation sketch (in the basement, in Shevchenkivska hata)

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Entering rooms of humanity’s aspirations - offices, cafes, apartments, it is understandable that they are equally faceless: people do not notice the becoming of, as Paul Graham, American computer scientist, said, variations on variations for we don’t know where our ideas are coming from. Rewriting of cultural memories turned people into beams - entities of being with moral values influenced or created by media.

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Installation consists of:

Big empty hall with a Soviet building construction at the end that absorbs times' passing. Sculpture of Gothic cathedral would greet you on the right, having a postal box growing from it. Made from mineral stones and meditative cards, cathedral partially levitates above the floor. In the current timeline of humanity, unfortunately it is selfie sticks that grow from postal box. Having umbrellas' handle made from body of a pencil and optica instead of a phone, selfie sticks are meant for a purpose of decoding reality, not darkening it. Therefore, slightly bowing down to the ancient, beholder becomes an encounter of ability to decode, using a selfie stick. The devasted by Time sand text in the wooden floor reads:

"Written tactility of reality is nature's road that introduces one to the meta-clock of humanity. Dripping water is a not yet applied sky, the depth of which nests in our lungs. Eye shore forms question marks from circles-bones of our heads and vertical bodies. We the people are questions from generation to generation. Our senses are schemes, functional variables that change from rain to steam; ink that people are is of plant’s consciousness. Everything, except the Sun, Earth and space was made by people. In 19th century these hands, for the first time, laid on the table of self-instruments. Straight lines of wood and palms show that every single human being is eternities’ caterpillar. Today we are expressing the very first try of self creation. Thread of memories shows that parchment translated onto astronomy of the cross centralizes access to the word and personality. Voiceless, changeable, cursor of time, yet not an ear, intelligence that criticizes own capacities: palm of childhood that plays in the sand of history wakes up every morning beyond ego and looks at itself through a prism of untouchable Mother of Souls. The text is not yet read, thank you for attention."

Having had read this text off the floor, beholder sits on a bench inside faceless construction. Endless tunnel seems to appear as you look back. Pillows and laptop would greet you there, reading the following website: https://annasmetanenko.wixsite.com/artworks/echoism-book where live stream of people in front of which you sit, would creature a child.

 

We have to rethink our visual form for only having had demolished 20 centurie's historical layer can we create ourselves in this, highly visual century. 

 

Dimensions variable

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2017