For Brazil event : Yvy Maraey Institute
Irineu Garcia, Presidente of Yvy Maraey Institute,
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For: Irineu Garcia
Presidente of Yvy Maraey Institute;
Artist: Shuengit Chow 2020 + MobileMusic House
Since covid19, due to
worldwide quarantine and lockdown, I stayed home and have had much more time to think
about life and art. Listened to a lot of
audio books, and the ones that seem most attractive to me are all human
related.
I read great story
tellers and listened to their voices : Doris Lessing, Edith Wharton, Fitzgerald,
Malcolm Gladwell, Nabokov, Werner Herzog, all great human story tellers. They seem timeless, human details, how a human
being thinks.
What prospects do we
have for a better future? If we could
take time to think about the short time we have on earth, say 100 years, we
will all come to pass, what could we pass on to the people after us? I would think how about a natural clean environment? Clean air, good water, and a slow way of
life, no need to have so much efficient artificial intelligence. Computers and smart phones already started to
form our way of life – we live in templates of presets. We already reformed our way of thinking to facilitate
the new computer ways of working. Deal
with paying bills – online – banking – food purchase etc etc all are regulated
as per template preset due to automatic functions of these administrative tasks. The preset templates are not only administration
oriented but have already affected all things which used to have a softer edge,
where we could ask a human so we could negotiate, customize finer details.
How about re-orientations of mindsets, some re-sets for the future?
What is my art? I like customization, create esthetic scenarios
for people. I need growth, unlimited variations and surprises.
Today, I took a walk in
the woods, and I found two huge cepes mushrooms, they are giant size! How come we cannot have these regulated and
grown according to pre-determined locations?
They are allowed to appear wherever they please and we to pick them when
we have the luck to do so. They say wild
plants are wild because you cannot grow them, they just choose to grow where
they wish.
I wish we could have
more wildness. Could our future allow for this? A little bit more wildness?
My “MobileMusic” house
is made from a collection of randomly collected cans from around the world. Like the mushrooms we find in the forest, we don’t
know where and when we will find them. The
work grows, evolves, marking time, exists as a contemporary time stamp.
