Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Age-n-DADA 2010
by Sasha Meret


Every four billion three hundred and twenty thousand years, right before the beginning of Kali-yuga, there is a massive intersection of near-missed entropic events, the envy of most of the malefic deities trapped in our universe. The flat representations of these, can be briefly visible if you ride the A line on the New York MTA and focus at the pages of an 7"x 3.5" organizer covering schedules for the year 2010, following the Augustine calendar. The pages have to be slightly see-through and the emerging grids coiling into each other will eventually breach the two-dimensional confines of their provenance and slip into the more comfortable three-dimensional mode. The convention is modeled after Vishnu's periodic attempts to deconstruct eternal boredom and reformat it as endless fun in shapes that defy conventional humor. The mediator executing this delicate task has to render in fifty two panels Vishnu's fifty two non-verbal apparitions as the Playful Grid Master reconfigured as Hyperspace Tokens. Each Token is valid for a round trip on any Hyperspace transportation system. The mediator is chosen randomly and this time his name was Sasha Meret.

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