#TheWorkofArt
#TheWorkofArt is an online program of art dialogues targeted at European audiences within the framework of smARTplaces. The program is made up of eight live sessions in which we discussed and reflected on the labour and processes of art with different participants.
Thursday the 17th of October 2019 the Van Abbemuseum hosted an artist talk with artist Melvin Moti for the smARTplaces series #TheWorkofArt. In this artist talk, Melvin Moti tells about his work Cosmism, consisting of a film and a publication. The Van Abbemuseum acquired the work in 2016. Cosmism places the events of September 11, 2001 within the context of Cosmism. Cosmism was a movement led by Russian thinkers at the end of the nineteenth century who combined occult and esoteric theories with science. One of them, Alexander Chizhevsky, studied the relationship between increased solar activity and major historical events on earth, such as wars, revolutions, and epidemics.
Moti developed more curiosity for big impact events and their relation with cosmic activity because of his research. He looks into the current and recent (political) developments as well.
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