Solkan

Cesta IX.korpusa 99 A
Galerija TIR, Mostovna
5.12 - 12.12.08
Nova Gorica, Slovenia
9th International New Media Art Festival
PIXXELPOINT
BIOCHIM
New media interactive installation
THIS RITUAL IS MENT ONLY FOR YOU!
180 sec of OMnipotent mantra for ritual hand cleansing Partners
20000 ml of viscous liquid with interactive amebic shades and
http://spiritualomnipotence.blogspot.com/
For more information about the project, please visit:
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(spi)ritual OMnipotence
Contact: raphael_monzini@yahoo.it
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(sound design)
• Raphael Monzini
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yet! INFORMATION FOR THE USER
Contact: machiel@cpu-theatre.org
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INFORMATION FOR USE:
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Carefully (visual & interaction design)
• Machiel Veltkamp
Contact: other.otherside@gmail.com
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Read all of this leaflet carefully before you start using the installation. 3. Possible side effects
• Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.
DO NOT TRY THE RITUAL!
Like all rituals, (spi)ritual OMnipotence can cause side effects.
• If you have any further questions, please contact us via e-mail.
Some examples:
1. a+0 = a
And especially …
1. What (spi)ritual OMnipotence is and what it is used for 2. The → The
3. <y> → >y<
(Spi)ritual OMnipotence represents a mise-en-scene of our body qua mind 4. [xx] [xy] → x(xy)x → ∞
DO NOT READ!
perceptive apparatus which wants to stimulate, investigate and challenge the
transformative potential of symbolic actions performed outside the realm of 4. About (spi)ritual OMnipotence
institutionalized religion.
But I warn you:
The installation includes some of the typical characteristic of religious rites:
This new media interactive installation focuses its attention onto an extension
of audio-tactile stimuli which are used to evoke a cathartic, full-body immersive • Symbolic gestures
experience. All that in order to provoke a semi-spiritual noesis produced • Full-body involvement
through mediated s(t)imulations with autotherapeutic potential. • Therapeutic potential
This procedure is always available for use.
2. How to use (spi)ritual OMnipotence The particularity of this ritual lies in its approach which is completely
stop reading.
demystifying. The interactive experience of hand cleansing allows the
The installation consists of two developments: installation user to comprehend that the whole purification ritual is founded
From here on you can either continue or
1. Preparation onto perceptive illusions. In this manner, the media stimulated psychotic
immersion gets deliberately defictionalized. The solicitation of experience and
• Brochure reading awareness is controversial when compared to ecclesiastical rites supported by
• Mantra listening unquestionable truths called dogmas.
• Hand sanitization
Nonetheless, it is precisely because this fluid-filled vessel installation functions
2. Experience as a Black Hole in Reality, an empty space onto which is possible to project
one’s own desires, fears or distorted perceptions, that one can evoke the
• Corridor passage phantasmatic surplus value that enables the:
• Installation CREATION OF SOMETHING (autocurative experience) OUT OF NOTHING
(virtual simulation).itC
 SELF-THERAPY PROCEDURE

A) Getting ready for the ritual

Reveal the transported carriage that you would like to remold.
For example, you may decide to:
• Transform your fears
(of dying without accomplishing what you were meant to, of becoming paralysed or impotent, of giving birth to a malformed creature, of feeling to much…)
• Transform your guilt feelings
(for having swallowed the silence, for representing the other, for being embodied, for being dispersed …)
• Transform your dependences
(on going where you cannot be found, upon the algorithms and formulas, need of being comprehended, need of outside approval, …)
• Transform your aggressions
(nonacceptance and depreciation of your/other’s selves, feelings of disconnection/inappropriateness …)

B) Ritual procedure
• Transformation of the problem
Contaminate the space with your presence. All is inside you, you are outside.

IN MY WHOLE TOTALITY, I CONSCIOUSLY DECIDE TO TRANSFORM

(my fears/guilt feelings/dependences/aggressions)

INTO

(their positive opposites; examples: complete independence from, unconditional acceptance of myself/others, total removal of guilt distortions, ...)

• Hand cleansing ritual

Dip your extensions into the liquid and sip the embodied purity.
THE BEGINNING ...

C) After the rite

The ritual may provoke certain changes in your way of behaviour and perception. For more information, read the Possible side effects chapter.