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The following artical was printed in N D 14.
© N D 1993, Austin, Texas.
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ART AS TELEPATHY, MEETING AND (SPI)RITUAL
Andrej Tisma
For a long time it is clear to me that mail-art, or
correspondence art, is just one stage in development of a
non-material art in which the work itself is not
important, but rather the artist behind it. It is
communication, an exchange of creative energy between
artists. It works with the human psyche. Since 1985 when
I defined mail-art as a "pulsating spiritual sculpture",
I have been especially interested in working with the
human psyche as artistic material.
It is only by temporary necessity that the exchange of
mail-art takes place via the postal system and other
material and electronic means of carrying messages. True
exchange will consist of the direct transmission of
inspiration from artist to recipient, and subsequent
feedback.
Since 1984, I've been taking part in the series of
Andrzej Dudek - Dürer's projects under the title
Metaphysical Telepathic Project, and from the beginning I
felt that there is something different in it compared
with the rest of the mail-art network. Maybe that was an
important impulse for my later research in the field of
art of meeting (meet-art) since 1985, and spiritual art.
Andrzej Dudek, Polish mail-artist and performance artist,
claimed to be the reincarnation of the famous renaissance
painter Albrecht Dürer, and year by year he was asking
us, the members of the mail-art network, to take part in
his projects, dedicated to the anniversary of Dürer's
birth (21st of May). We were asked to do something as an
homage to Dürer on the exact day (of his birth) on the
exact hour, and to send Andrzej Dudek the documentation
of our act. But it was obvious that it was not the
documentation, but the action which was happening all
over the world at the same time, which was the aim of the
project. Metaphysics and telepathy were on the scene
during these two or three hours and that was the main
content of the "exhibitions" that Dudek had organized as
homage to Dürer.
Once, I remember, I happened to be on my tour in the USA
in 1987. It was the month of May and I was carrying with
me Dudek's invitation for his Metaphysical Telepathic
Project, having in mind to do something for him wherever
I happened to be. So it happened in Philadelphia, where I
had organized a meeting with several mail artists from
that area (Des McLean, Sheila Holtz, and James Webster
Jr.) in the "Commissary" restaurant, where we all
together made an artwork for Dudek in Poland (between 5
and 8 pm). We made a collage with rubber-stamps,
stickers, and texts, but our real work was our telepathic
connection with Dudek, and through him, with Dürer, and
all the participants of the project from all over the
world who were doing the same thing at the same time.
The similar thing is happening during the meeting of
artists. Exchange of their mind and spiritual potentials
is going on while they are talking about art, showing
each other their works or working together in a
collaboration. It is happening more directly and
intensively than in telepathy on the long distance,
because more senses are included, proving the telepathic
connection, enabling participants to react faster and
more directly.
In 1985, I began to consider my meetings with artists
themselves to be works of art or artistic acts (meet-
art). Producing original rubber-stamps, I immortalized
numerous meetings with artists, and now experience each
imprint of these stamps as an evocation of the meeting it
commemorates - i.e. as a new artistic act.
Together with these meetings, I also began to do
performances by which I hoped to directly affect people's
spirits. My performance entitled "Love", in 1984, already
constituted an attempt through telepathy and magic, to
transmit love to the entire world (aided by a map of the
world). In New York, during 1987, I imprinted my rubber-
stamp messages on people in the street, hoping to leave
my mental stamp on them. With a series of similar
performances (or interactions), in which I use
conversation, lecture, distribution of printed matter and
imprinting stamps on viewers' bodies, I strive to imbue
them with inspiration and enlightenment. I call my
activities (spi)rituals - rituals of spiritual exchange.
This is non-material art which is intended neither for
senses (like the fine arts), nor for the intellect (like
conceptual art). It is directed at the human spirit and
its great potential, now more or less dormant, which
needs to be awakened. Just as a sculptor shapes clay, I
want my art to make use of the human spirit, that
inexhaustible substance, which when handled intelligently
can be shaped, guided, expanded and absorbed. The
ultimate artistic work is inspiration itself, that pure
feeling of enlightenment and cleansing. It touches the
meaning of existence, which, after all, is what all art
strives for, except that here the path is shorter and
effects direct, since there is no object as an
intermediary.
My latest (spi)rituals consist of attempts to transfer
spirit to artistically uninteresting objects and
materials (pieces of paper, water, rock etc), which I
then mail or distribute in some other way, and which are
supposed to radiate my inspiration to the recipient. I
also carry out actions in a natural setting, sending out
my positive spirituality to the surrounding world.
All these things as spiritual exchanges, inspiration, and
telepathy are forms of the future non-material art which
is now coming in sight in different parts of the world,
and will be established in the next millennium.
Andre Tisma
November 22, 1990
21000 Novi Sad
Modene 1,
YUGOSLAVIA (SERBIA)
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HALLO AND GREETINGS FROM N D magazine!
THIS ARTICAL ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN N D 14
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