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September 16 - October 8 Reception September 16, 2010 • 6 - 10pm 540 W 28th St +ART, NY, NY 10001
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IMAGES 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 artifacts and robes, poetry and literature, custom designed jewelry, as well as an original musical composition, to transport the viewer into the worlds suggested by the 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 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. Are we strictly a product of our history, or are we defined by the actions of the present? Are we moving so quickly that the enormity of actions taken millennia before beads off of our cultural psyche like a raindrop on the windshield of a speeding car – little more than a historical footnote? In the face of an uncertain future how do we function when the anchor of our past is cast adrift? 1% of all proceeds earned through Carnivora go to benefit the National MS Society. |  |
