WE ARE NOT GOD III – Noosphère - Protocol + Installation, 2018
To gather the cups, the artist shares a coffee with residents, cafés and restaurants around the exhibition venue, and borrows their cup for the length of the show. Each loan becomes an invitation.
Vidya-Kélie creates an unexpected association that puts in tension the history of coffee, a colonised spice, with the mercury of batteries and LEDs, polluting and volatile materials. In the darkness, the flickering of the LEDs set in the cups evokes an almost sacred sheet of collective consciousness: the noosphere*.
* The noosphere, according to the thinking of Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, refers to the “sphere of human thought”.
(…) In one of these installations, WE ARE NOT GOD III, the artist Vidya-Kélie JUGANAIKLOO diverts ordinary objects: coffee cups and luminous LEDs to create an unexpected association. A connection that puts in tension the history of coffee, a spice of the colonies symbol of travel – the condition of nomadic Man, with the mercury of the leds, a polluting and volatile material, symbol of Man’s imprint on nature.
In the darkness, the flickering of the leds arranged in the cups evokes a collective consciousness, a noosphere. The artist questions with “humour and poetry” the relations between beings and their ideal propensities, their ability to make and exchange ideas. A creative function that would produce an artificial network of perception?(…)
Excerpt from the article “KIND OF KIN, MADE OF PARENTS, NOT BABIES!” – By Samir Taouaou – timepoint 2018
See also: Faites des parents, pas des bébés ! – Kind of Kin, Metaxu, Toulon, 2018