The 8th of Mart Group

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Marilena Preda Sank

GLOBE 'Remapping the World' consists in a series of art works on concrete
support - painting, photos, objects, slides - and efemer support - video,
CD-ROM, focused on the concept of global / local identity, on the concept
of Power and the notion of abstract / intimate space.
In a world that is often too aggressive and desperate many artists try to
find a physical/physiological balance through Images, created by them on
concrete or ephemeral supports, that are deeply involved with our inner and
outer life as human beings. Our wandering through our domestic worlds as
well as our immersion/absorption into the social worlds, our new relations
with electronic technologies shapes our daily living, remodels our
existence.
Sometime our life, the life of common people and the destiny of small
nation are changed under the will of Power. A Power that combines cynicism
and arrogance and assumes the right to interfere. Today we speak about The
New World Order which is not based on a defensive concept but rather on
violence as a work principle. Numerous voices consider this as 'high-tech
Barbarism'. We are immersed in a new techno environment and we have to
meditate on the demonic part of technological instruments, which are very
often used by Power for manipulation, surveillance censoring and
destruction. Sometime TV channels, journals, exhibitions and different
events make compromise to 'self-censorship' and 'the parameters of
acceptable stories'.
Technological culture is part of our life. It offers us possibilities to
enrich our human experience in new ways of seeing, hearing and thinking. It
is important to point out that technoculture means not only technology and
culture as abstract notions, without identity. The technoculture is
constructed by all realities and contexts/situations related to human
communities. Today we like to think the present and the future of the
humanity in a very extropian way. Yes, this could be valid only if we
understand the 'concept of neighborhood' as a 'living need' and we have to
practice an 'ethics of care'.
I believe that the quality of life of human being will be enriched once
ego/geo consciousness is fully integrated into the ecological mind of a
revived new Man identity.
Citizen/Netcitizen of world leaving everywhere
geography of self
local perspective/global context
geography of Powers, geography place of reflection
multiple locations/dislocations
ethno, private space/virtual environments
multiple layers of Realities/multiple dimensions
build the rhizomatic human existence today
wishful thinking to an ethics of care with shared beliefs and moral values
yearning for peace and for a common Paradise on Earth
to reach without aggressiveness the dream of an eugenic world
let build an ecomind for an ecoenvironment.
The installation GLOBE tries to reflect a local / global essentialism of
existence. Video Globe is based on a performance. During the performance I
cut, scratch and destroy the globe. All these tortures signify wounds
provoked along history by the impossibility of man to understand the world
by his incapability to find a way for living together in peace. There are
images, plenty of aggressiveness interfering with images from my mother's
daily life and her private space. My mother's every day simple life and her
domestic universe represents the true life and something, which we have to
preserve. I used as a background a set of fix images representing unreal
geographical globe maps. Dislocated territories, distorted boundaries
re-modeled the world after an unpredictable will.
I try to find a visual expression for my ideas / believes regarding the
important problems as concern our contemporary living needs, our local /
global identity.
In my artwork Image is Message. Through editing or cut and paste I build
the discourse. My artwork explores various layers of Realities and has at
its core Man the spiritually beautiful being and alteration in the context
of the civilization created by him. The human being is situated in the
world in an interconnection with the material/social worlds. My positive
vision about the world makes me to belief in our immersion in a spiritual
cosmic hologram, into an ethical space of poiesis.