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Carnivora is a transporting walk-through experience that stimulates the viewer’s senses, challenging their preconceptions of the boundaries of art, mythology, religion, and the history of humanity. The installation – featuring the premiere of a cohesive collection of work in a variety of mediums – takes its inspiration from the purported discovery of “The Sacred Texts of Carnivora…”
Qaanaaq, GREENLAND--- Rocky substrate slabs bearing marks of early local Inuit language have been discovered several miles north of Siorapaluk, thanks to advances in electromagnetic subterranean imaging. The markings likely date to 5,000 years prior to the creation of cuneiform writings. Worldwide efforts are currently underway to decipher the previously unseen language. “The Sacred Texts of Carnivora,” as they are known, may be the earliest examples of recorded human language.
“If true, history as we know it is about to change,” said Dr. Brian Lassengal, director of the expedition. “Dramatically.”
Carnivora is massive: it incorporates elements of still photography, large format illustration, sculpture, painted works, ceremonial masks and robes, custom designed jewelry, poetry and literature, as well as an original musical composition, to transport the participant into the world suggested by the personal mythologies of The Sacred Texts of Carnivora.
As nearly all of us are aware, the world as we know it has changed, and the foundations upon which our current contemporary culture had been built have cracked. It is becoming quite apparent that in order to continue we will need to reconsider how we go about doing what it is that we do. Carnivora raises these same questions by asking the viewer to contemplate a profound change in the heretofore-unassailable history of human language and its origins. Who are we really? Are we strictly a product of our history, or are we brave enough to accept the end of the old and begin anew? If one cannot accept the impact of Carnivora in a world that has already shown us how temporary the ideological constructs of humanity are, how will one ever survive the coming dawn?
1% of all proceeds earned through Carnivora go to benefit the National MS Society.
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