Photo by Hong Cheolki

Concept: Alexandra Morozova, Rustem Begenov

Music: Rustem Begenov

Materials: disposable aluminum containers, aluminium foil, flash lights, hand-made embroidery

Dimensions: 330cm x 430 cm

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"The New Genius Temple of The Great Atomic Bombreflector" at the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale is a part of the two-part project, continuing ORTA’s program to create a revolutionary device to transform the destructive energy of Atomic Inhumanity into the Genius Forces of global uplift: The Great Atomic Bombreflector.

The starting point for the project is 40 years of atomic explosions in Kazakhstan conducted by the Soviets turning the entire country into one big testing ground. The project is based on ORTA’s New Genius Theory—a philosophical and artistic system inspired by the visionary Kazakhstani artist, writer, and thinker Sergey Kalmykov (1891-1967).

The New Genius Temple is a unique individual device consisting of a hardware component and a performative component. The hardware component is an immersive installation made of 5,000 disposable aluminum containers, a system of light and sound streams, and a core—a special portal called "Sacred Exposition," crafted by Guide-Performer Alexandra Morozova using the traditional Kazakh embroidery technique of "biz keste."

The performative component involves each visitor spending time inside the Temple, connecting to their Genions, activating them, and channeling them through the portal into the general flow of Genions along the channel created as a result of the collective Seoul New Genius Experience, from the Universal Core of Seoul to the Core of the Phenomenon of War in the Universal Composition, in order to irradiate and reduce it.

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Сommissioned by the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale.

Supported by Seoul Museum of Art, Goethe-Institut Korea, Goethe-Institut Kazakhstan.

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