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Permanent Transformation

“Permanent transformation” or “transformative permanence”? It’s all the same, because the second word refutes (or contradicts) the first. The Rafani group took a chance on some school kids and they, in a split second, turned a gallery space into the monstrous St. Euphoria Chapel. It represents the vital force of man as a blinding, burning light, but also is metaphor for the raging vortex of the collective psyche, overstimulated emotions and torn up folders of the social compact. The Rafani group enters this space with images that touch the nervous system of society and of our age. We would gladly say that they are disjointed, had they any joints to begin with.

artistsRafani
placefotograf gallery
tags
castDavid Kořínek, Jiří Franta, Marek Meduna, Luděk Rathouský
cameraRadim Labuda
soundRadim Labuda
editingRadim Labuda
interviewRadim Labuda
translationRadim Labuda
categoryReports
published11. 12. 2016
languageČesky / English
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Permanent Transformation
The tools brought about by technological progress and the network society create an alternative way of establishing communication and building new relationships of interpersonal and interspecies cooperation. However, we suggest listening to the sounds of practices associated with community: rituality, coexistence with the world of plants, animals, and fungi, dissolving the hypersensitivity of the individual "I" in favor of the collective "we," sensitivity to the stories and perspectives of plants and animals, oil, or clouds.
The key significance of the accelerating development of artificial intelligence and other digital systems lies in the fact that they allow us to newly recognize the plurality of other forms of non-human intelligence that we have been “secretly” surrounded by all along. We needed to invent thinking machines to notice that everything around us is thinking.
By imitating the gestures of objects and things that are already in the gallery space; by slowing down, pausing, lingering, alighting, unwinding... through these actions we can escape the entrenched trajectories we found ourselves on in the morning, rid ourselves momentarily of what we have already become, so that we can lose ourselves in thoughts of what we might be.