INDRANET
The yurt, the nomad's house by definition, becomes here a house of memory.
Working with the ancient concept of the memory disk, we built a circular space: a container of memories, a domus memoriae. A circle marked on the ground maps the the limits of the virtual space, bridging the physical and the digital.
The house and the mandala share an archetype. Mandalas serve not only as encodings of mythological narratives but as technologies for creating and navigating memory palaces, the mechanisms explored by Ramon Llull and Giordano Bruno. Inside this space, spirits discuss essential themes to the human condition: memory, origins, death, God, war.
In Hindu and Buddhist traditions, the physical world is Maya, an illusion; a holography beyond which reality manifests in its infinitude. In each drop of Indra's Net we see the reflection of all other drops. In each person who enters as the Traveller, we see ourselves.
In collaboration with Nuno Mika
Indranet, 2019
mixed reality installation w/ video (37 min)
300 x 300 x 400 cm