The Mother: Notes From The Ocean - Mind Mapping From The Sea (2017)
A sound piece coming from a shell
'ProRegress'
12th Shanghai Biennale
Power Station of art Shanghai CHINA
Reading 143 words from 'The Mother's
mind-map of the experimental township and eco-village
Auroville - City of Dawn
- shaped as a Fibonacci spiral
in Viluppuram District, India.
Repeating three words;
Progress
Realisation
Sincerity
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press play
to listen
Auroville is an intentional community
founded in 1968 in Southeast India by
Mira Alfassa aka ‘The Mother’,
India’s first female guru.
Envisioned together with French architect
Roger Anger as a futuristic city for
50,000 inhabitants, housing
4,484 people from
67 nationalities
today.
'The Auroville Project'
examines how relationships
between humans and nature,
an ecological and sustainable lifestyle,
spirituality and political ideals of self-development,
common ownership and collective living
are enacted and re-imagined
within the community
today.
BIENAL FOTOGRAFIA DO PORTO ’21
/ "WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WORLD HAPPENS TO US"
The shell that I got from my grandmother-in-law
reminds me of my own grandmother's
mouth as she had passed.
Thank you brilliant stellar sound technician
and artist Laura HeubergerMancini
'Re-Imagining Utopia - The Auroville Project'
curated by Heidrun Holzfeind & Christoph Draeger
shown at Kunstpavillion Innsbruck Austria,
part of the 12th Shanghai Biennale '18-'19
and Bienal Fotografia di Porto '21
The theme of the 13th Shanghai Biennale is
'Bodies of Water'