Making of: CØSMIC STRIKE, 2018

CØSMIC STRIKE

Ø enjøyment, Ø jøy. Ø y.

Ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø øngoing gangbang.

Ø unhøly impact øf cølliding cløuds! Ø! STRIKE!

Yet anøther ghøstly superpøsition øf hard science and løøpy mysticism.

Dharti Hai Akash Hai! The vastness øf the ether cløud! The Earth is. The Ethers are.

Ø jøy! Zigzig and perpendicular! Zilliøns øf thøughts cøllide, galvanized, cutting acrøss zpace-time!

On a bedspread, a Tired Tantric Experiment was executed at CERN. Two tulpas (avatars) were

initiated: artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) and artist Lee Lozano (1930–1999). Af Klint’s primordial

chaos rubbed up against Lozano’s cool tool. Set in a cloudy atmosphere. Ø strike again!

Af Klint appears as (en)lightning energy going intracloud (IC), cloud to cloud (CC), and at certain

points cloud to ground (CG) and ground to cloud (GC). A collision between af Klint’s luminous

atoms and Lozano’s terrestrial, turbulent corpus. A weird, low-key dropout experiment of self-

touching, in which Lozano and af Klint’s clash produces a tiny amorph figure, born again and again.

Endless iterations. A series of lively jolts. The hot plasma of cosmic rays flow down through the

serpentine pathways of the nervous system as Kundalini rising.

A solitary screen displays the 62-minute 3D animation (Tired Tantric Experiment), accompanied by

the sound of a 62-minute mantra (Isht Sodhana Mantra Kriya), a solitary bedspread (Plasma Sheet),

and a solitary conical object (Sushumna Nadi Avatar), pulled out of the hermetic grip of the European

Organization for Nuclear Research storage facility. No ownership, only locked, loaded and good to

go.

Far-øut.

Vibrant patterns, containers, light beams, portals, light blue infinites, rain of sparks, pillar of light collapsing, thoughts seeking (up from) the ground through atmospheric touch, blue, white and red bends, flames tearing and threading throughout the sky, solar radiation, beams, dizziness — balmy, foggy fuss. FIRE AS ENERGY, neither thought nor feeling.

Science, beautifully as rotting fruit. Cosmic decay. O enjoyment, O joy. O y.

Lea Porsager, 2018

How to do this thought experiment, this virtual imagining, on the cusp of materialisation?

How to make it real? Why this provocative, vulgar terminology?

The two visits Porsager paid to CERN (the first being the introductory trip, the second devoted to the experiment itself) culminated in CØSMIC STRIKE, an experiment-based work inspired by the enigmatic kinship between spiritual and scientific explorations.

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