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In this project I propose to take
the role of a
fururistic chrononaut, who has trekked back in time looking
for cultural artifacts that were lost by humans or have an
aura/residue of the human who lost the object. Every object
is photographed with the intervention of an atomic clock at
precisely the moment of discovery (decisive moment) taking
the Duchampian specification for readymades to, “naturally
inscribe the date, hour, minute, on the readymade as information.”
The GPS (Global Positioning System) coordinates of the location
are also taken.
After some passage of time I meditate on the artifact, trying
to connect psychically to the previous owner through psycometry
and return to the exact location where the object was first
discovered/encountered. On this site, I project a photographic
slide of the object where it once lay, now in absence, represented
by documentary evidence, and then re-photograph this ephemeral
projection. This is also the site of the
performance where I mythologize the lost object. This
performance is aimed at tearing a rift in the fabric of time
as it corresponds with landscape’s past and future—with
the present as the fulcrum. The aim of this project is preemptive
archeology for a future Earth society or alien civilization.
It is my goal to represent this epoch through pseudoscience,
the absurd, non-space, existentialism, and the intangible
ethereal qualities of entropy/time and the loss of all intrinsic
value except that which is unobtainable; with the only enduring
element in the universe being that of the Spiritual/conceptual
(4th dimension).
SPACE-TIME INSTRUCTIONS
• Walk around a city. [With the
Zen/Buddhist no-mind]
• Look for lost objects that once belonged to a human.
[That has the aura/residue of a person]
• Insert an atomic clock at the moment of discovery.
• Photograph the object and clock. [Take object]
• Establish the global positioning system coordinates.
[GPS]
• Meditate with/on the object.
[Attempt to connect with the previous owner]
• Return to the exact location where object was found.
• Project the slide of the object and clock.
• Photograph the projection.
• Memorialize/Mythologize the artifact through performance.
• Videotape the result.
• You have now created a Space-Time Location.
[Connecting past-present-future]
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