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We are intently listening to the sky and peering into it in our search for a signal from an alien intelligence somewhere out there. The idea of an extra-terrestrial civilization grips the popular imagination as well as the scientific intellect. It appears throughout our culture from Star Trek to SETI. The vast loneliness of space has usurped the supernatural as the awesome mystery of the secular age.
Meanwhile on earth we continue to suffer from racism, genocide, deforestation, pollution and the progressive loss of bio-diversity. We do not care for the life right in front of us. We are like guests at a cocktail party only half engaged in a conversation while our eyes dart around searching for more and better.
This curiosity, however, this extrovert instinct, is a human quality which can be harnessed in the service of intelligent life. We have the choice, now, to be the advanced civilization we are looking for.
Array is intended to celebrate the acts of listening, looking, and communicating rather than to fuel the desperate desire for a sign, an answer ‘out there’. It is intended to draw attention to the activity itself, and its wider context, rather than its narrow goal. True listening requires a radical opening of oneself. Focused looking requires active inquiry. Real contact with those around us requires a sense of respect, tolerance and compassion. This performance/sculpture is intended to address such issues.
An array of dishes will be placed on the earth like radio telescopes, begging bowls or ears, receptive to whatever may fall into them. They will be placed in different environments along the circumference of a circle drawn in the same proportion to the earth as the iris is to the eyeball. Twelve of them will be placed like twelve goblets around a round table. The artwork will consist of the journeys and meetings as much as of the objects themselves. Languages, customs, modes of transport, intelligent behaviour both human and non-human, ecosystems and weather will inform the work as much as its size, shape and appearance. |
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