
The independent Republic of Conscience www.tictocplanet.org
THE INDIPENDENT REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE is a state of mind, a place to gather people, to share and acknowledge action, and to remind politics what it is forgetting.
The independent Republic of Conscience www.tictocplanet.org
THE INDIPENDENT REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE is a state of mind, a place to gather people, to share and acknowledge action, and to remind politics what it is forgetting.
Dear Friends,
I hope very much that you will join us on Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 to witness the creation of the INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE. I hope too that you will all become ambassadors of our state with no borders, no passports, and no nations. For all those of you who have followed my work since Fluxland 2016 and the series of talks we curated on board the boat, it gives me great pleasure to introduce my new venture, The Independent Republic of Conscience. Accompanying my upcoming performance installation, The Lovers of Pompeii, this new republic is inspired by Seamus Heaney’s poem and has been designed to foster collective participation in the world’s positive evolution.
We formally acknowledge the terrifying state of destruction facing our planet, the impact of all our human activity, and the extreme acceleration of these processes. By creating our newly independent state and by becoming Ambassadors, we hope to ght and positively impact the future of this rapid evolution in a respectful and conscientious manner. The anthropocene utopia will be more destructive that any of the previous political utopias of the twentieth century. The trauma will be borne by all of us, it will move with respect to borders, to race, to species. There will be more natural disasters, more forced migration and more con icts due to the impending shortages of natural, necessary primary goods. Humans are but a part of the natural environment. We simply cannot continue presuming that we alone are allowed to modify nature and its ecosystems for our immediate bene ts. We cannot continue to impose an ecological debt on future generations. No political discussion can be had that continues to ignore the most obvious contemporary risk faced by mankind. We need to begin a transgenerational / trans- geographical conversation. History shows that we are not allowed to be blind. We have the responsibility and the duty to be actors in service of a better world.
THE INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE is a state of mind, a place to gather people, to share and acknowledge action, and to remind politics what it is forgetting. We have the luxury, the duty, and the technology to invent a new conception of progress and to nd a human way to celebrate and nurture our future generations.
Cyril de Commarque
My Eden is a Lie, 2018 - edition of 1/3. 260cm x 180 cm. Stainless Steel Polyhedron and Neon Light
The work trigger reflection on time”
Art is there to trigger your emotions, to disturb you, to oblige you. More than 4.5 million children in the UK are growing up in areas with toxic levels of air pollution, the UN children’s organisation Unicef has warned.
O2, 2018. 250cm x 122cm. Polished mirrored cage, neon lights, tropical plants.
Fluxland, 2016. 25m x 5m. Polished metal mirror
In the laboratory of ideas, Fluxland was an unusual and vital space, bringing together international voices in serious and thoughtful debate
Fluxland allowed me to engage with the besieged ideas of progress
Art has the power to shape a better society, education toward the idea of freedom
From the interpretation and idealization of the ruins taken by nature in the romantic art movement of the XIX century to the vital necessity to re-interact with nature. The piece is a metaphor for our need to recreate a form of progress based on a responsable ecosystem, VIRIDIEM, a symbol of hope. An ephemeral installation, the project will respond to the necessity of the location and the context. An installation that interacts with the community, constructed in partnership with local actors of the economy and with the support of local industries and institutions. Access will be free: it is a place to visit but also to come and just rest or meditate. A piece at the center of the city with and for its population.
Construction Elements: The aim is to source locally all required materials. This will allow partnership with the local institutions and insustries for sponsorship. The concept is to interact directly with the local economy and the citizens of the city, using plastic which has been recycled in Turin, linking the community to its daily consumption.
- Plastic recycled blocs
- Plants are sourced from local botanical gardens and garden centers.
- Sound system - electronic sound, nature sound, voices...
- Lightening for night access
- Actual project base on 10m x 9m x 7m
Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now three times the size of France..
N0702 Diasec C-print 180x240 cm edition 3
THE PLANET IS ON THE EDGE OF A PLASTIC CALAMITY....
THE ANTHROPOCENE AGE
Les Larmes de Peter Pan, 2015, Macro - Rome
from How Beauty Masters In nite Regress by Alexandra v. Stosch
"Peter Pan is the eternal inhabitant of a mysterious island where children rule: Neverland. If you have ever watched children play, you get the idea that Neverland is by no means paradise. It is just a place where a “higher order” has no say. Where there are no limits to playful, impulsive ac on and childish egoism. Like any utopia since Thomas Morus or even Platon’s Atlantis, it can be a scary place. The absence of adult life leads to totalitarian order and re ects a rule that philosophers like Augus nus and then later Husserl have de ned in terms of their consideration of ‘ me’: That closed systems must ultimately lead to in nite regress. The “endless regression” that Peter Pan stands for is a symbol for that process.
Cyril de Commarque’s latest works stand in line with these observa ons: by designing an “Ever-Neverland”, where ultimately children become aggressive against themselves and destroy what they really love, he draws an eerie picture – not of a gloomy future, but in fact of our present societies. Once you think of it, it is so obvious: The growing dependency on technical devices, which govern our daily life, become our instructors, masters, controllers increasingly hold us in a state of immaturity. Has anyone thought of Larry Page as Captain Cook?
For the last five years I have made it an exercise to reread Kant’s famous answer to the ques on of “What is Enlightenment?” twice a year, which he wrote in 1784, exactly 230 years ago: Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude!"
MIGRANTS, 2013, audio sculpture, 154 x 160 x 45cm - glass, latex, metal, sound system - limited edition 1/3
Frontiers, Israel, 2013. 141cm x 197cm. Layers: - 1020-930 b.C. Biblical Israel - 1949 Israel's armistice lines - 1967 the Six Days War - 2013 Today
42152, matricule G de Commarque Buchenwald concentration camp 1943
La racine perdue, le pere de mon pere.. St. Johannes Evengelist Kirche, Berlin, 2008 - From left: I) Root extracted from the Buchenwald Camp II) Video Installation projection on 3 screens 8' 40" in loop III) Audio installation 1'58"
Cello, Cyril De Commarque. Performed by Adrian Brendel, Ecritures Silncieuses exhibition, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris 2010