Opus IX: Abode of Chaos / Demeure du Chaos 1999-2013

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Le Facteur Cheval du XXI ème siècle !!!
À ne pas détruire, une trace de notre siècle !!!
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consider a anagogic analysis of the
Abode?) the question of death and
destruction of the Abode of Chaos,
putting aside its juridical acceptance,
reminds us of the delicate
issue of immortality in art. Will it
be able to go through centuries, to
finally become a protester monument?
We are aware of the prophetic
powers of the Abode, its future
will draw itself through the medias
that are always attuned with
their current era. Art evolves with
its time and has created new languages
and new codes. More than
ever, the Abode of Chaos, demarcating
itself for its protean
aspect and its
mastered utilisation
of mix media, turns to
experimentation. We
will make ours these
words from Gene
Youngblood “all art
is experimental, if it
isn’t it’s not art”. Video
has become a natural
extension of a global
thought process on our world and
is a most appropriate tool. The dematerialization
of art imminently
brings us closer to the divine
Ether. A filmed image, spread on a
large scale through the contemporary
brain which the Internet has
become, will be our virtual reality.
The Internet is actually a metaphor
of the Divine, not to say the
Divine itself, and opens a pletho­
ra of doors for artistic expression.
Cyber art is slowly emerging. The
Abode of Chaos will become digital,
or won’t become at all. It will
therefore annihilate all geographical
distances, surpass censorship,
and become a temporary autonomous
zone, a piratic utopia very
dear to Hakim Bey, interactive and
instanteneous, omnipotent and
uncontrollable. Its dark entrails
will remain gaping for whoever
wishing to enter, always welcoming
avant­garde artists, performers,
mutants and creatures. The
Abode of Chaos is in constant expansion
and spreads its germs all
over the world. From east to west,
Bunkers and containers are landing
here and there in a multitude
of head quarters and rallying
points. The broadcasting has now
been launched. The artistic theory
of chaos, autodestructive or not, is
slowly seeing its manifesto becoming
reality.
In either way, its extension will be
rhizomatic, complex and diffuse,
soluble and dissolute, spreading
like a retrovirus (contaminating
its detractors) in our social
and artistic environment. Finally,
feeding upon chaos (of current
events, of the world gone back to
its Hobbesian “state of permanent
war”) this inexhaustible source of
creation, will defy infinity.
metamorphose