Premium Connect
«Premium Connect» envisions a study of information and communication technologies exploring African divination systems, the fungi underworld, ancestors communication and quantum physics to (re)think our information conduits. Overcoming the organism-spirit-device divide, this work explores spiritual connections as communication networks and the possibilities of decolonial technologies. Premium Connect investigates the cybernetic spaces where the organic, technological and spiritual worlds connect.
How can we use biological or metaphysical systems to fuel technological process of information, control and governance? Contrary to Eurocentric-biased thinking, our information superhighway might find its roots in African spirituality. Significant research attributes the birth of binary mathematics - which is the foundation principle of computing sciences - to African divination systems such as Ifa from the Yoruba people, of West Africa. We have much to recover in terms of connectivity and its potentialities. As modern science just recently discovered the role of underground fungi networks used by plants to communicate and transfer information, an ancient tradition has long known how to communicate with nature and download its knowledge.
This study of dynamic networks from artificial, spiritual and biological environments digs into the politics of possibilities, where a techno-consciousness could nurture a mind-body-spirit-technology symbiosis.
Artist:
Tabita Rezaire
Commissioned by:
EMARE and Impak, Utrecht, Netherlands
Represented by:
Goodman Gallery
Year:
2017
Duration:
13 minutes
Type:
Video with led glow
Country:
France
Website:
tabitarezaire.com
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