SWEATSHOPPE // Ouroboros 2010

3D multi channel immersive audio visual installation
7 LED Projectors, surround sound system
a collaboration with Ali Houssaini

The moving image plays tricks on the mind. It is nothing more then man-machine made mirage.
The way in which we experience video in our daily lives is inherently subversive, it works towards
reassuring us that objectivity is relevant and that reality is immediate. It tells us that time is real,
that we live in a concrete world, that I am me and you are you and that this is where we are.
We want to let you know that this is not true. We want you to know that I am he as you are
he as you are me and we are all together. See how they run like pigs from a gun see how they fly.

We propose that in modern (postmodern, post-postmodern, alter-modern, however you
may see it, not that it matters) times the basic units of mathematics — numbers, equations,
measurements and geometry — have come to form an omnipotent spirituality, the spiritual
force that propels society into motion. In a fragmented world numbers and their by-products
are the only thing that remain ubiquitous. The man in not skin and boner but instead statistical
information. Our work references historical spiritual illustrations of the cosmos, from vedic yantras,
buddhist mandalas, and sacred geometry. Chaos shrinks into Bindu. A circle is drawn. The circle
becomes a square, non-perforated. The square is divided into four, and becomes Sarva-siddhiprada
chakra. Sarva-siddhiprada chakra becomes Kali yantra and Kali yantra becomes Sri yantra, altogether
forming Sweat yantra. More tricks are at hand… these yantras and mandalas are not yantras and mandalas,
but instead geometrical forms — mathematical equations. The wiser knows that these mathematical
equations are nothing more then yantras and mandalas.

Why RGB? Because in a world of numbers RGB is at the atomic level of all colors, colors create space,
and we are space-cadets. I look out my window. I see a yellow flower. If I could not see green then the
flower would be blue. If I could not see blue the flower would be green. Red, green and blue —
256 0 0, 0 256 0, 0 0 256. More circles, don’t fall into the zero. RGB, the colorspace from which
everything is derived. Why do we want you tripping through primary space? Erika is passed out
on the floor. She even brought her dog.