at the beginning of August this year I had the honor and pleasure of being able to participate in the project geopuntura Equilibrium, as of today (09/09/2007) was opened in the space of the Botanical Garden of Prague in the district of Troja. This project was organized by the civic association, Culture inform Bohemia, in the person of Jan Taibos (author too 'he in the project, www.jantaibos.cz ) and his friends very valid and collaborators. With the financial support of the foundation Maitree (www.maitrea.cz) . The international group of artists was made by the writer and Maurizio Martinelli of Italy. For Germany by Juliane Scholz, Johannes Vogt and Peter Frank, for Slovenia and Ana Pogacnik Marko Pogacnik, Austria by Dagmar Kalb and Wolfgang A. Tiller , and finally to the czech republic by Jan Taibos. I can not describe in words the intensity of the experience which I had the opportunity to participate in person, Quin I tried to tell it through images.
I let the words of Marko Pogacnik the explanation and presentation of the project from his letter of invitation to the workshop.
art projects and Geomancy the geopuntura.
This project is a good chance to bring Geomancy, the conscience of a large audience, which is a part of today's culture. The location of the project is the Botanical Garden of Prague working together with Jan Tajbos organization of this event.
space, where it will be implemented is at the top, the energy system to Prague (crown chakra). Li is the possibility that the information which will be coded in the project that we do, you can spread around the globe.
Together, we will design the space letters for different parts of our planet, which are then modeled in clay to create the bronze castings.
The Botanical Garden of Prague
decided in 2007 to create a circle of space letters in his field to celebrate the qualities of balance planetarium.
planetary balance in all its aspects, has a decisive importance not only for the life of plants, but also for the life of all living beings on Earth.
The modern human civilization has begun to seriously damage the global balance, through the disastrous "actions" in the nature around the planet.
To reverse this trend, which can lead to disharmony throughout the Earth, a conscious effort, directed at restoring the balance in all levels of culture and environment is needed.
The proposed project of two circles of space letters, is an example of a conscious effort to support the overall balance through the balance of opposites.
Circle of Prague space letters take the form of a double helix representing the two polar opposites that balance each other.
It is created by a group of international artists who are familiar with the creation of space letters. The cosmogram is a visual sign that has the ability to transmit information beyond the limits of space and time.
The concept of the double helix of the stone circle.
Balance and the basic means to bring the two opposing forces in balance.
These opposing forces are represented through two wires that are wrapped in opposite directions.
The first spiral is composed of 20 space letters each of which refers to particular countries or landscapes of Europe.
The second spiral is made of 19 space letters, each of which refers to particular countries or landscapes from other continents or oceans of the Earth - Africa, Asia, Oceania, Australia and the Americas.
For each of the 39 sites chosen, the participating artists will create the corresponding cosmogram that will reflect the identity of the place.
The space letters will be modeled in clay and cast in metal alloy and mounted on river stones, creating a form of double spirals.
The first spiral is dedicated to the different cultures in question so they represent the human culture, while the second spiral is primarily devoted to natural planetary phenomena.
In this way the balance of the two spirals is also a means to seek a balance between human culture and the terrestrial nature.
Afterword:
Ecology as being and not just how.
Salvatore Cali
In the late seventies and early eighties, a new generation of thinkers and environmental activists became aware that the environmental movement was born in the early sixties of last century had limitations and that if only there was no need "to do" something to reduce the environmental impact that the Modern civilization has on the environment, or search for technical solutions to the increasingly pressing problem of pollution, but it needed a new vision that took into account the philosophy, ethics, psychology and more recently and what new thinkers were disclosing what is our planet, see the Gaia hypothesis of James Lovelock. This is how new nouns such as deep ecology, and the ecosophy ecopiscologia. The common denominator of the latter is trying to have a new approach to what we call as "taking care of our home," un'approccio what I would call cultural, defining new ways of being in this planet do not require attention to how to be alone " green "in everyday life, but also a new way of being and living of the planet, and new cultural patterns of conduct, something more to embody in themselves do.
This is the context of the modern geomancy or as I like to call it (borrowing from the work of Marko Pogacnik) "holistic ecology," which draws attention to a profound personal transformation for transforming a terrestrial ecosphere, in which reality not be transformed but cherished. Life is not just the obvious, what we see with our senses but also the invisible one that is beyond our ordinary senses.
The planet has a soul and a spirit that the ancients liked to call Gea.
The art becomes a tool with which to interact with the power of unseen substances on land, and beyond, and communicate with them.
always intuition, imagination, and deep listening are the preferred instruments of art and not only the mystics and visionaries, who joined the sensitivity of the artist gave us masterpieces that have deeply impressed the imagination of 'man, but they, especially in the last two centuries, was something that described and were rarely designed to influence and interact with life in its totality.
Marko Pogacnik years using these "tools" for its operations in landscape.
the poster images are graphic in Skvorova Lucie Jan Tajbos.
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